Uploading Files with JMeter
JMeter’s HTTP Request sampler can be used to upload files to a web application. Follow these steps:
Use the POST method (in some cases, the PUT method may be required).
Check the Use multipart/form-data for POST box:
In the Files Upload section, provide the following values:
File Path: either an absolute or relative path to the file from JMeter’s “bin” folder.
Parameter Name: the form name that contains the
<input type="file" ...>tag. You can find this in the upload page’s source code.File MIME Type: the MIME type of the file being uploaded. In the example below, an xlsx file is being uploaded.
file MIME html text/html txt text/plain rtf application/rtf gif image/gif jpeg,jpg image/jpeg au audio/basic mid,midi audio/midi,audio/x-midi mpeg video/mpeg avi video/x-msvideo gz application/x-gzip tar application/x-tar