Thanks, that is what I tought also, but that relative redirect is on the
welcome file code of tomcat so I was just verifying...
Benoit Lalumiere
Software Architect
Jambala Innovation Cell
Ericsson Canada (LMC)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Prevo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 4:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: relative redirect problem using port mapping vip
>
> Technically you should never be relying on sending a relative redirect to
> begin with. The redirect method says that is should be an absolute URL.
> Here's the code we use in my project to overcome all of the redirect
> issues
> we ran into:
>
> protected String getServletUrl(HttpServletRequest req, String
> servletInfo)
> {
> StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
>
> String servletPath = req.getServletPath();
> int servletSlash = servletPath.lastIndexOf('/');
>
> url.append(req.getScheme());
> url.append("://");
> url.append(req.getHeader("Host"));
> if (servletSlash < 0)
> url.append('/');
> else
> url.append(servletPath.substring(0, servletSlash + 1));
> url.append(servletInfo);
>
> return url.toString();
> }
>
> Hope this helps.
> Joe
>
> At 12/7/2000 03:10 PM, you wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >we use tomcat as a web server on multiple processors having different IP
> >addresses behind a VIP portal. The VIP maps Ip adreeses and ports also
> >(therefore a request send to port 80 can reach a processor with port
> 8080,
> >etc.).
> >
> >When doing a relative redirect (response.sendRedirect method), the
> Absolute
> >URL build from the relative URI does not seem to be produced properly.
> It
> >takes the host name from the request header but takes the port from the
> web
> >server (from HttpRequestAdapter.getServerPort). therefore creating a
> >redirect url command with the right IP address but the wrong port (in our
> >case 8080 i.o. 80). That seems to be a bug in the tomcat code as it
> should
> >take the port from the request header. But can someone tell me if I
> might
> >be doing something wrong before I change the code...?)
> >
> >Benoit Lalumiere
> >Software Architect
> >Jambala Innovation Cell
> >Ericsson Canada (LMC)
