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Params

Params is an object used by the http.* methods that generate HTTP requests. Params contains request-specific options like e.g. HTTP headers that should be inserted into the request.

NameTypeDescription
Params.authstringThe authentication method used for the request. It currently supports digest, ntlm, and basic authentication methods.
Params.cookiesobjectObject with key-value pairs representing request scoped cookies (they won’t be added to VU cookie jar)
{cookies: { key: "val", key2: "val2" }}

You also have the option to say that a request scoped cookie should override a cookie in the VU cookie jar:
{cookies: { key: { value: "val", replace: true }}}
Params.headersobjectObject with key-value pairs representing custom HTTP headers the user would like to add to the request.
Params.jarobjecthttp.CookieJar object to override default VU cookie jar with. Cookies added to request will be sourced from this jar and cookies set by server will be added to this jar.
Params.redirectsnumberThe number of redirects to follow for this request. Overrides the global test option maxRedirects.
Params.tagsobjectKey-value pairs where the keys are names of tags and the values are tag values. Response time metrics generated as a result of the request will have these tags added to them, allowing the user to filter out those results specifically, when looking at results data.
Params.timeoutstring / numberMaximum time to wait for the request to complete. Default timeout is 60 seconds ("60s").
The type can also be a number, in which case k6 interprets it as milliseconds, e.g., 60000 is equivalent to "60s".
Params.compressionstringSets whether the request body should be compressed. If set to gzip it will use gzip to compress the body and set the appropriate Content-Length and Content-Encoding headers.

Possible values: gzip, deflate, br, zstd, and any comma-separated combination of them (for stacked compression)
Params.responseTypestringResponseType is used to specify how to treat the body of the response. The three options are:
- text: k6 will return it as a string. This might not be what you want in cases of binary data as the conversation to UTF-16 will probably break it. This is also the default if
discardResponseBodies is set to false or not set at all.
- binary: k6 will return an ArrayBuffer object
- none: k6 will return null as the body. The whole body will be ignored. This is the default when discardResponseBodies is set to true.
Params.responseCallbackexpectedStatusessets a responseCallback only for this request. For performance reasons it’s better to initialize it once and reference it for each time the same callback will need to be used

Example of custom HTTP headers and tags

A k6 script that will make an HTTP request with a custom HTTP header and tag results data with a specific tag

JavaScript 
import http from 'k6/http';

export default function () {
  const params = {
    cookies: { my_cookie: 'value' },
    headers: { 'X-MyHeader': 'k6test' },
    redirects: 5,
    tags: { k6test: 'yes' },
  };
  const res = http.get('https://k6.io', params);
}

Example using http.batch() with Params

Here is another example using http.batch() with a Params argument:

JavaScript 
import http from 'k6/http';

const url1 = 'https://api.k6.io/v3/account/me';
const url2 = 'https://httpbin.test.k6.io/get';
const apiToken = 'f232831bda15dd233c53b9c548732c0197619a3d3c451134d9abded7eb5bb195';
const requestHeaders = {
  'User-Agent': 'k6',
  'Authorization': 'Token ' + apiToken,
};

export default function () {
  const res = http.batch([
    { method: 'GET', url: url1, params: { headers: requestHeaders } },
    { method: 'GET', url: url2 },
  ]);
}

Example of Digest Authentication

Here is one example of how to use the Params to Digest Authentication.

JavaScript 
import http from 'k6/http';
import { check } from 'k6';

export default function () {
  // Passing username and password as part of URL plus the auth option will authenticate using HTTP Digest authentication
  const res = http.get('http://user:passwd@httpbin.test.k6.io/digest-auth/auth/user/passwd', {
    auth: 'digest',
  });

  // Verify response
  check(res, {
    'status is 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
    'is authenticated': (r) => r.json().authenticated === true,
    'is correct user': (r) => r.json().user === 'user',
  });
}

Example of overriding discardResponseBodies

JavaScript 
import http from 'k6/http';

export const options = { discardResponseBodies: true };
export default function () {}
export function setup() {
  // Get 10 random bytes as an ArrayBuffer. Without the responseType the body
  // will be null.
  const response = http.get('https://httpbin.test.k6.io/bytes/10', {
    responseType: 'binary',
  });
  // response.body is an ArrayBuffer, so wrap it in a typed array view to access
  // its elements.
  const bodyView = new Uint8Array(response.body);
  // This will output something like `176,61,15,66,233,98,223,196,43,1`
  console.log(bodyView);
}