Performance Expectations

Hello,
 We've been using HTTPUnit in our Software Engineering class for a few years
now, and we're pretty happy with it. However, our http tests are pretty
slow. We know that the system itself is not particularly slow - our regular
unit tests pass quickly and the application itself is not slow. In
particular, our login utility method seems to be a major contributor:

public WebConversation login(String username, String password) throws
Exception {
//...some code...
WebConversation wc = new WebConversation();
WebResponse loginResponse = wc.getResponse(ADDRESS);

WebForm form = loginResponse.getForms()[0];
form.setParameter("j_username", username);
form.setParameter("j_password", password);

WebResponse homePage = loginResponse.getForms()[0].submit();
//....more code...

This chunk of code takes 3-4 seconds each time. Each of the two http
requests are about 1.5-2 seconds. For a 120 tests it takes about 8-10
minutes. We'd really like to speed it up if we can.

We're using Tomcat as our server. I've tried things like disabling
"acceptGZip", disabling scripting (which is not always an option), and
accepting images as an alt text - no change. Am I missing a parameter I can
tune? Is there a way I can further diagnose the problem?

Thanks!

   -Andy

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