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KenG's avatar
KenG
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Jul 10, 2014

Variable Scope with HTTP requests and collected data

I would like to be able to direct a request based on the content of some of the XML content in the request body. So far I have only ever done this in the HTTP_REQUEST event. In fact we have a basic f...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 10, 2014

Control passes directly to the HTTP_REQUEST_DATA event when you issue an HTTP::collect, and more important, the action variable that you're trying to see doesn't get set until after some processing in the HTTP_REQUEST_DATA event. If you put that log line anywhere in the HTTP_REQUEST_DATA event, after the set action line, you should see the variable with the correct value.