Accessing a .exe file with HTTP Request

Question

Hi!
Can I access an executable file located in a WEB page with JMeter?
I'm tryng to use a HTTP Request:
Server Name or IP: 111.111.111.1
Port Number: 8080
Path: /cliente/file.exe
The file is in a Tomcat application.
When I run, in the View Results Tree - Sampler Result, it shows:
Load time: 63
HTTP response code: 400
HTTP response message: Bad Request
HTTP response headers:
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:26:09 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Connection: close
I already had copied the link and placed it into the browser to verify
if it was correct and i had access to the file normaly.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Marcelo.

Answer 1

If the .exe file is publically-accessible from your web server (like other normal .html files are for example), then accessing that resource would be done the same way as accessing others (get a stream of bytes that the server would serve up, and do something with those bytes on the client end of the connection). I don't know what JMeter has to do with that.