Best SSL Configuration

2008-06-03 Thread Alexander Diedler
Hello, I am a newbie on SSL and in the official SSL Howto on Apache.org there are several repeats of "Create a keystore" so I am not sure in the SSL configuration. It is necessary to use OpenSSL to convert the Certificate from the CA? We bought a QuickSSL Premium Certificate (http://www.trust

Re: Tomcat Custom Connector

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Barker
AFAIK, there isn't a lot of documentation. But there isn't that much too it. You need to implement a ProtocolHandler (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ProtocolHandler.html) This class is responsible for managing the transport (e.g. ServerSocket) and request threa

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread David Smith
With BASIC authentication, the credentials are stored in browser memory for the life of the browser process whether that be minutes or days. It won't ask again until it's closed and a new browser process started. The browser requests a resource, the server comes back with either a 403 or 401

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
Following lines are from apache user guide. (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html#basicworks) Because the HTTP protocol is stateless, each request will be treated in the same way, even though they are from the same client. That is, every resource which is requested from the server wil

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
I am really sorry if my explanation was confused you. aaa.com -> Deployed in Tomcat and using FORM authentication. bbb.com -> 1) Static data files are deployed in apache and Httpd & .htaccess is used for authentication. 2) Dynamic data files are deployed in Tomcat and BASIC aut

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread David Smith
sridharmnj wrote: My understanding: When server receives a request for a secured resource first time (depending on url-pattern and security constraint settings in web.xml), first it asks for credentials using dialog box if its BASIC authentication or login form if its FORM authenticatin and perf

Re: Questions on session hijack bug in 6.0.14 (CVE-2007-5333)

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
Annony Mouse wrote: Thank you very much for the fast and detailed response. It is very reassuring to understand how the attack would actually work, and even better that it is more limited in scope than I had feared. On 6/3/08, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 7.) Communications failur

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
My understanding: When server receives a request for a secured resource first time (depending on url-pattern and security constraint settings in web.xml), first it asks for credentials using dialog box if its BASIC authentication or login form if its FORM authenticatin and performs authentication

Re: Questions on session hijack bug in 6.0.14 (CVE-2007-5333)

2008-06-03 Thread Annony Mouse
Thank you very much for the fast and detailed response. It is very reassuring to understand how the attack would actually work, and even better that it is more limited in scope than I had feared. On 6/3/08, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 7.) Communications failure can only mean on

Re: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread David Smith
I'll first admit that I've never used single sign-on, so most of this is educated conjecture on my part. Hopefully it'll spark some discussion in the right direction. Your right -- jvm version is not going to make a difference with the issue you are seeing. Plus upgrading the jvm may break t

Re: Questions on session hijack bug in 6.0.14 (CVE-2007-5333)

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
Annony Mouse wrote: 1.) Is the statement 'A remote user can obtain session information' a statement of fact ( someone has used this exploit to do this very thing), or a hypothetical worst case? I don't recall seeing a specific example of this but it would be prudent to assume that this was poss

RE: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
I hope you did not observe the following lines from my post. > bbb.com is an old project which was developed around 9 yrs ago and I am > not allowed to modify/reengineer the architecture. It is successfully running on those versions in production and client does not want to upgrade versions for

Re: Tomcate 5.5.23 JAVAOPTS

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
karthikn wrote: Hi Please some body correct me Intra net Application of 1000+ users (simultaneously) Will this config work ? O/s = UNIX 11 PA Risc SDK : J2SDK16 TOMCAT 5.5.23 RAM = 2 GB No idea. You'll need to do some load testing with your application on your hardware to find out. M

Re: Servlet + Corba Error -> Access to the specified resource () has been forbidden.

2008-06-03 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
its really a corba questions, search in those forums http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/omg/CORBA/LocalObject.html Filip Antonio González Artime wrote: Hello everybody: I'm trying to develop a simple application that uses a servlet and calls a Corba function; very similar to this tu

RE: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread Propes, Barry L
and you're stuck on Java 1.3.1 and cannot go forward? -Original Message- From: sridharmnj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:17 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: RE: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.27 Java 1.3.1 Propes,

RE: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.27 Java 1.3.1 Propes, Barry L wrote: > > what versions are you using? Of each? > > -Original Message- > From: sridharmnj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:52 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Single sign on issue with Tomcat a

RE: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread Propes, Barry L
what versions are you using? Of each? -Original Message- From: sridharmnj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:52 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache Hi, I am integrating two websites using single sign on. I have two si

Single sign on issue with Tomcat and Apache

2008-06-03 Thread sridharmnj
Hi, I am integrating two websites using single sign on. I have two sites namely aaa.com and bbb.com. When a user navigates from aaa.com, as he is already authenticated in it, he should be allowed to bbb.com without asking the credentials again. This is my requirement. aaa.com is based on Tomcat

Re: How to run own java application within Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Martin
Slobodanka- if you want to dynamically create and access TC entities (engines,connectors etc) from outside TC environment you would need to implement TC embedded server http://www.vsj.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=319 HTH Martin - Original Message - From: "Slobodanka Dimitrijevic" <[E

RE: How to run own java application within Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Slobodanka Dimitrijevic
Hi Johnny, Thanks for the answer but I think I didn't explain my problem correctly. I need the following situation: 1. a java application has to run continiously outside tomcat (when tomcat crashes the application must be still running). This application runs in its own virtual machine (VM1).

Questions on session hijack bug in 6.0.14 (CVE-2007-5333)

2008-06-03 Thread Annony Mouse
In the process of documenting potential security vulnerabilities in our product we have found that one of our releases is using a version of Tomcat which is susceptible to CVE-2007-5333, a session hi-jacking attack marked as low severity. Being a released product, we cannot update the Tomcat insta

Re: Tomcat 6 clustering problem

2008-06-03 Thread Gangadhar Prusty
Hi Filip, Yes my logs show those member discovery. The screenshots of logs of two instances are given below: *Log on Instance 1: (started first)* Jun 3, 2008 11:13:52 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Settin

Servlet + Corba Error -> Access to the specified resource () has been forbidden.

2008-06-03 Thread Antonio González Artime
Hello everybody: I'm trying to develop a simple application that uses a servlet and calls a Corba function; very similar to this tutorial: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Servlets/corba/ I deploy the application but when I use POST to send a variable to the CORBA function, Tomcat

Context level logging

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Mast
OK, i have a webapp which has it's own context element. I want all the System.out and System.err stuff from this webapp to go to it's own special log file as opposed to catalina.out. My reading of the Tomcat docs (version 5.5) seems to indicate that I can do this by following these steps: 1. set

Re: Tomcat 6 clustering problem

2008-06-03 Thread Gangadhar Prusty
Hi Filip, Yes my logs show those member discovery. The screenshots of logs of two instances are given below: *Log on Instance 1: (started first)* Jun 3, 2008 11:13:52 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Settin

Re: versus <% include %>

2008-06-03 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if the <%@ include file="somefile.jsp" %> method of including > a file is more error prone (on Tomcat) than flush="true"/> approach? > > Any ideas would helpful, especially an explanation of what is being done

Re: versus <% include %>

2008-06-03 Thread Rogelio R. Vizcaino L.
One is static (translation time) the other dynamic (runtime). http://tinman.cs.gsu.edu/~raj/oracle10/web.1013/b14430/workjsp.htm On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Mast wrote: I don't think they are exactly the same. I had something that was not working with but did for <%@ include %>. I

Re: versus <% include %>

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Mast
I don't think they are exactly the same. I had something that was not working with but did for <%@ include %>. I understand this the new, XML-complaint way to do things, but there must be subtle differences in how things are being done between these 2 approaches. On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM

Re: versus <% include %>

2008-06-03 Thread Andrei Tchijov
they are identical. you will want to use if you care to have your JSP pages in form of valid XML. On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:52 , Jonathan Mast wrote: I'm wondering if the <%@ include file="somefile.jsp" %> method of including a file is more error prone (on Tomcat) than page="somefile.jsp" flus

versus <% include %>

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Mast
I'm wondering if the <%@ include file="somefile.jsp" %> method of including a file is more error prone (on Tomcat) than approach? Any ideas would helpful, especially an explanation of what is being done under the hood when these 2 mechanisms are being invoked. Tomcat 5.5 Java 1.4.2 Thanks

JAAS modules being ignored by Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Emsley, I (Iain)
Hello, I've just deployed a JAAS module onto Tomcat 5.5.23 into the server/lib file to read a cookie and authenticate via that method for the url: localhost:8080/ucal. However one of the applications that I'm trying to log into currently has form-based authentication set in its web.xml: FOR

Re: Requests being processed at a certain moment

2008-06-03 Thread David Fisher
Alvaro, You certainly can easily use a Filter with your JSPs. Take a look at the jsp-examples webapps included with tomcat. If you look at WEB-INF/web.xml and the structure of WEB-INF/classes/ you should see how to use the example that Jim provided. For example RequestDumper: In web.xml

Re: Requests being processed at a certain moment

2008-06-03 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Álvaro Morillas (Sortes Ing. Inf. S. L. ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I don't use servlets, only jsp's, it's a solution I've thought, > using a log taglib. The problem is that I must insert the code in every jsp > and it's painful XD > > I was looking for

Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Niki Diulgerov
My fault... I have JkMount in my httpd.conf and JkMount in my ssl.conf which is responcible for the SSL connections... and I added JkMount /app/resources/* ajp13 only in httpd.conf and not in ssl.conf And was stupid enough to not try http connection (would see thet it works) but was only trying

RE: Requests being processed at a certain moment

2008-06-03 Thread Sortes Ing. Inf. S.L.
Although I don't use servlets, only jsp's, it's a solution I've thought, using a log taglib. The problem is that I must insert the code in every jsp and it's painful XD I was looking for an easier solution if it's available. Thanks anyway :) Álvaro Morillas Correa VicioJuegos.com - Sortes Ing

RE: installing Tomcat Container

2008-06-03 Thread Stephen Wick
Yeah, replace with whatever version you wish. -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 5:03 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: installing Tomcat Container > From: Stephen Wick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: installi

client authentication issues

2008-06-03 Thread Pavlos Drandakis
Hi all, I have configured a stand alone tomcat server with apr support that hosts a web application. I wanted to enable client authentication so I put in server.xml the following: Everything seems ok, but there are some issues ... 1) When CRL expires, Tomcat rejects every client certificate as

Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Niki Diulgerov
web.xml is the default coming from tomcat 5.5.26 the strange thing is in mod_jk log file in the beginning it says [Tue Jun 03 17:32:40.640 2008] [22746:2934367456] [debug] uri_worker_map_add::jk_uri_worker_map.c (379): wildchar rule '/app/*.jsp=ajp13' source 'JkMount' was added [Tue Jun 03 1

Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Rainer Jung
Niki Diulgerov wrote: It's not because of missing or insufficient rights. The connector just don't want to accept the rule JkMount /app/resources/* ajp13 and to redirect the request to tomcat and gives the error [Tue Jun 03 17:04:23.021 2008] [22353:2934367456] [debug] jk_map_to_storage::mod_

Re: Requests being processed at a certain moment

2008-06-03 Thread Jim Cox
I use a filter servlet to log entry/exit timestamps for requests along with some shell scripting to process the logs looking for "still open" requests. I've been using it for over a year for a production site, it's been very useful for debugging unexplained slowdowns, hangs, etc. Filter is pretty

Re: Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Brian Martin
Can you attach your web.xml file... I'm new to this too but I think you need to have appropriate url filters setup -- I might be using the wrong terminology here.,.,. On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:22:06PM +0300, Niki Diulgerov wrote: > It's not because of missing or insufficient rights. > The connec

Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Niki Diulgerov
It's not because of missing or insufficient rights. The connector just don't want to accept the rule JkMount /app/resources/* ajp13 and to redirect the request to tomcat and gives the error [Tue Jun 03 17:04:23.021 2008] [22353:2934367456] [debug] jk_map_to_storage::mod_jk.c (3211): no match f

Requests being processed at a certain moment

2008-06-03 Thread Sortes Ing. Inf. S.L.
Hi everyone. This is my first post in this group. I hope this question hasn’t been answered before. I have a problem with my web application. It is growing and in certain peak moments the server gets very busy. I work with Tomcat 5.5 and IIS. I think the problem is within my programming (not co

Re: mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Landon Fabbricino
Could it be as simple as not having rights (permissions) to see the /app/resources directory or the showPDFLetter file ? Landon Fabbricino IT Applications Phone: 403.225.7515 Fax: 403.225.7604 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Niki Diulgerov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/3/2008 8:04:47 AM >>> Hello there, I compil

mod_jk 1.2.26 jk_mount

2008-06-03 Thread Niki Diulgerov
Hello there, I compiled the mod_jk 1.2.26 from the source for Red hat 5.1x64 The module works as intended except some strance gehaviour I have in my httpd.conf JkMount /app/*.jsp ajp13 JkMount /app/*.do ajp13 And this works OK but my application have a URLs like /app/resources/showPDFLetter?form

Re: How to run own java application within Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Slobodanka Dimitrijevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: RE: How to run own java application within Tomcat Hi Johnny, Thanks for your mail. Can you please tell me : 1. where should I stop Java ex

Re: Compatibility Apache - mod_jk - Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Rainer Jung
Rainer Jung wrote: JLucas ZB wrote: Hi everybody, which are the best Apache, mod_jk versions to use with Tomcat 5.5.17 ? Like Mark said. At the moment 1.2.27. CORRECTION - CORRECTION - CORRECTION 1.2.26 Sorry, I was ahead of time.

Re: Compatibility Apache - mod_jk - Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread karthikn
Hi >> Like Mark said. At the moment 1.2.27. The URL "http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/binaries/win32/"; does not mention of 1.2.27 but only 1.2.26 Please Provide URL to find the same MOD_JK 1.2.27 with regards Karthik Rainer Jung wrote: JLucas ZB wrote:

Tomcate 5.5.23 JAVAOPTS

2008-06-03 Thread karthikn
Hi Please some body correct me Intra net Application of 1000+ users (simultaneously) Will this config work ? O/s = UNIX 11 PA Risc SDK : J2SDK16 TOMCAT 5.5.23 RAM = 2 GB The Web application is simple and uses JNI to connect to UNIX LOCAL Application JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms200m -Xmx2548

Print Page Generation Time

2008-06-03 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, How can i enable printing the Page Generation time in the access logs I have set the below in server.xml file not sure on how to enable printing the Page Generation time in the access logs. Tomcat and OS details : tomcat-5.0.27-r6,Gentoo OS and sun-jdk-1.5.0.12 Thanks and Regards Kaushal

getAttribute("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate") returns null

2008-06-03 Thread Luis Pascual Forner
Hello, I'm trying to use CLIENT-CERT authentication with Tomcat. When I get the attribute "javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate" the first time, it returns the certificate. So far, so good. But if I access the same JSP after that, or another JSP that get the same attribute, it returns null. W

Tomcat Custom Connector

2008-06-03 Thread Simon Aquilina
Hi, I am interested in building a custom connector for Tomcat. I have checked the Tomcat source code and found the source code for the ‘http11’ and ‘ajp’ connectors. I thought of trying to understand the code of these two connectors and then try to implement mine based on these. However I am no

RE: How to run own java application within Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Slobodanka Dimitrijevic
Hi Johnny, Thanks for your mail. Can you please tell me : 1. where should I stop Java executable inside Tomcat directory structure? 2. which configuration file and what should I configure inside Tomecat if I want to run executable java application during sturtup of Tomcat? Thanks in advance, Sl

Re: Compatibility Apache - mod_jk - Tomcat

2008-06-03 Thread Rainer Jung
JLucas ZB wrote: Hi everybody, which are the best Apache, mod_jk versions to use with Tomcat 5.5.17 ? Like Mark said. At the moment 1.2.27. Is there any compatibility table for those products ? mod_jk is compatible with httpd 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2. It is also compatible with all backends, that