Gatling with ToxiProxy

[mkar]

Gatling version: 3.11.5
Gatling flavor: java
Gatling build tool: maven

Hello Gatling Community,

I am new to Gatling and I am trying to use it together with ToxiProxy. My scenario is to send requests in Computers database with or without proxies.

Could someone help me with the setup?

• ToxiProxy is up and running:

           CONTAINER ID.......2b8e486ea0b3
           IMAGE..............shopify/toxiproxy
           COMMAND............"/go/bin/toxiproxy -…" 
           CREATED............4 weeks ago
           STATUS.............Up 3 hours
           PORTS..............0.0.0.0:8474->8474/tcp, :::8474->8474/tcp
           NAMES..............toxiproxy
  

• I have created a toxic through toxiproxy-cli (no proxies at the moment):
  toxiproxy-cli create gatling_test --listen localhost:26379 --upstream computer-database.gatling.io:80

           Name...............gatling_test
           Listen.............127.0.0.1:26379
           Upstream...........computer-database.gatling.io:80
           Enabled............enabled
           Toxics.............None
  

• In the Java script I am not sure what is missing to make the connection work:
  

[slandelle]

As described in the documentation, the proxy HTTP configuration supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies.

ToxiProxy is none of these, it’s a “TCP proxy” (more of a gateway, actually).

That’s not something we can help with here. I recommend you check the ToxiProxy documentation, find a way to use it with curl, then translate your curl command into Gatling usage.

[mkar]

Thank you very much for your answer!! I actually realized I just need to use as the baseUrl() the listening address of ToxiProxy. It worked like a charm!