[ANN] Apache Tomcat 7.0.68 released

2016-02-17 Thread Violeta Georgieva
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.68. Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvement

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Ty
>> For Ty's purposes, simply avoid JAR scanning entirely should eliminate >> the heap issues, right? Moving from Tomcat 6 means that JAR scanning >> is not required for correct operation of their application. > Yes. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo/FasterStartUp has the details > of the configu

Re: Does Tomcat need a non-ssl connector?

2016-02-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Msh, On 2/16/16 9:16 PM, m...@kimwana.com wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:52:50AM -0500, Christopher Schultz > wrote: >> >> >> If jsvc is working for you, what's the port number you chose for >> SSL? 8080? (That's odd, most people use 8443). Why

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Mark Thomas
On 18/02/2016 00:05, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 2/17/16 5:04 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 17/02/2016 11:11, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 16/02/2016 22:07, Ty wrote: > Exactly which versions were you using when you ran your > tests? According to my notes: 7.0.59, whic

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ty, On 2/16/16 4:51 PM, Ty wrote: >> if Tomcat had the option to ignore META-INF/resources in JAR >> files > > Perhaps interesting: of the 27 JAR files in my dummy application, > not a single one has a META-INF/resources. Obviously, markt is follow

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, On 2/17/16 5:04 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 17/02/2016 11:11, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 16/02/2016 22:07, Ty wrote: Exactly which versions were you using when you ran your tests? >>> >>> According to my notes: 7.0.59, which should've

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Mark Thomas
On 17/02/2016 11:11, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 16/02/2016 22:07, Ty wrote: >>> Exactly which versions were you using when you ran your tests? >> >> According to my notes: 7.0.59, which should've been the most recent >> version available at the time (about this time last year). >> >> To clarify: tha

Re: How to set tomcat 8.0.20 container character encoding of request and response to UTF-8 intead of ISO-8859-1

2016-02-17 Thread David kerber
On 2/16/2016 11:38 PM, Akshat Tandon wrote: Thanks Chris for the response, Basically we don't want to do coding around the filter as it will also bring us an additional overhead of maintaining the code and follow the quality process , Ideally we want say some setting to say in server.xml to set

Re: Should tomcat form login offer redirects to login page besides forward?

2016-02-17 Thread Bernhard Lenz
Hi Mark. You were absolutely right about a redirect not being as simple as it sounds. It turns out tomcat is relying on the HTTPSession to store the original request which obviously fails in this case since the HTTPSession is not shared between different web apps. Additionally the Principal, usern

Re: Cannot upgrade past Tomcat 6 due to massive memory increase

2016-02-17 Thread Mark Thomas
On 16/02/2016 22:07, Ty wrote: >> Exactly which versions were you using when you ran your tests? > > According to my notes: 7.0.59, which should've been the most recent > version available at the time (about this time last year). > > To clarify: that was the version we did a heap dump analysis