- Last Updated: [[2020-12-22]] - Source: [[JMeter]]'s [[Article/Apache JMeter - User's Manual: Component Reference]] - "> There is no control over how connections are re-used. When a connection is released by JMeter, it may or may not be re-used by the same thread." - "> The API is best suited to single-threaded usage - various settings are defined via system properties, and therefore apply to all connections." - "No support of Kerberos authentication" - "It does not support client based certificate testing with Keystore Config." - "Better control of Retry mechanism" - "It does not support virtual hosts." - "It supports only the following methods: **GET**, **POST**, **HEAD**, **OPTIONS**, **PUT**, **DELETE** and **TRACE**" - "Better control on DNS Caching with [DNS Cache Manager](https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#DNS_Cache_Manager)"