Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, On 11/17/2009 11:59 AM, David Smith wrote: > Christopher Schultz wrote: >> David, >> >> On 11/17/2009 7:39 AM, David Smith wrote: >>> Your tomcat has to listen on 443 to remove the port number from the >>> URL. This is not a tomcat issue, but

Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread David Smith
Christopher Schultz wrote: > David, > > On 11/17/2009 7:39 AM, David Smith wrote: > > Your tomcat has to listen on 443 to remove the port number from the > > URL. This is not a tomcat issue, but rather the browser's expectation. > > That's not entirely true. If Robert configures his firewall to re

Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, On 11/17/2009 7:39 AM, David Smith wrote: > Your tomcat has to listen on 443 to remove the port number from the > URL. This is not a tomcat issue, but rather the browser's expectation. That's not entirely true. If Robert configures his firewa

Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread Robert Denison
That's exactly what I was hoping for, thanks David (and others who have posted), you're a gent. I thought it might be something like that but I couldn't find any conclusive evidence about handling secure ports... R. On 17 Nov 2009, at 12:39, David Smith wrote: > Your tomcat has to listen on

RE: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> It works fine but as it stands https requests have the form > https://mydomain.com:8443. I would like to set it up so like > most secure internet sites there is no port number in the URL > even when using https. Can anyone point me in the right > direction or at some documentation that will h

Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread Tobias Crefeld
Am Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:40:46 + schrieb Robert Denison : > I've set up my tomcat server to serve http requests on port 8080 and > https on port 8443. My firewall forwards requests for 80 to 8080 and > 8443 to 8443. Tomcat cannot help you in this case. You will have to make your firewall for

Re: https and port numbers

2009-11-17 Thread David Smith
Your tomcat has to listen on 443 to remove the port number from the URL. This is not a tomcat issue, but rather the browser's expectation. -- David On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Robert Denison wrote: Hi, I've set up my tomcat server to serve http requests on port 8080 and https on port