Re: https and port numbers

-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

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

-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

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

> 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

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

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

https and port numbers

Hi, 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. 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 inte