JMeter - injecting variables into a HTTP Request

Question

I'm trying to work with JMeter to test some web services. So far so good, but I was wondering if you could do the following -

I make a http POST request to create a resource, and if successful the response comes back with the location of the resource in the headers. What I would like to do is take the value of this header, and use it in a http GET request to retrieve the resource. Is this possible with JMeter?

Any help is much appreciated

Answer 1

Use the regular expression extractor to extract the header value to a variable by using a regex. Then use the variable like any other variable in your GET request.