#api token

JWT Lessons from Load Balancer

Problem

I had an Angular front end calling a .NET Web API backend. It would produce a JWT token for authentication. However different calls would fail to the backend with the correct token. I couldn’t always reproduce the failure with Postman either. Both the front-end and the back-end are load balanced.

By default the .NET Web API uses the machine key to produce the JWT token for authentication.…

Artillery: Capture Response Data

Problem

You need to call an API and use data that is sent back in the response. This could be for authentication or creating complex testing scenarios.

Solution

Verify that Artillery is installed and working.

Create your .yml file

Add the below configuration to it

It will store the value from the response $.access_token, in this case 42, into the $token variable for later use

This example assumes…