>According to the JavaDoc for ServletRequest.getRemoteHost()
>
>Returns the fully qualified name of the client that sent the
>request, or the
>IP address of the client if the name cannot be determined. For HTTP
>servlets, same as the value of the CGI variable REMOTE_HOST.
>
>Based on that I would say that both implementations are wrong,
>you should
>never get an empty or a null value back. I would also argue strongly
>against having tomcat do any reverse DNS look ups. If the web server
>doesn't tell us the remote host name just use the IP address.
Ok, I'll do accordingly.
Did the 3.2.2 tree is closed ?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GOMEZ Henri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:00 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: About bug#208
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The BUG #208 (request.getRemoteHost() returns empty string when
>> using mod_jk
>> BugRat Report#320)
>> is still there (3.2.2b4). The difference is that when we're
>using ajp12,
>> getRemoteHost = ""
>> and in ajp13, getRemoteHost = null.
>>
>> The fix is easy the getRemoteAddr() is allways set but :
>>
>> - Did we want to Tomcat ask the DNS to resolve the name since it may
>> be time consuming ?
>>
>> - ajp12 return empty string, ajp13 return null, what solution is
>> recommanded
>> in that case ?
>>
>> I also suspect TC 3.3 to have the same kind of problem ;(
>>
>> -
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>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: GOMEZ Henri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 2:40 PM
>> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Subject: [PROPOSAL AJP14] AJP13 Evolution
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi to all,
>> >
>> >You could find attached a proposal of evolution to
>> >the current Apache JServ Protocol version 1.3,
>> >also known as ajp13.
>> >
>> >Let start the comments, questions, remarks cycle.....
>> >
>> >PS : I've not cover here the full protocol but only the add-on
>> > from ajp13.
>> >
>> >-
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