PATCH: Aliases again - this time tested and working, but...

[Deacon Marcus]

Hi,
Unfortunately, the patch I submitted a few days ago for host aliases isn't
enough. Looks like <Alias/> tags are just ignored - they're supposed to be
handled in org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina, which is uninteligible to
me (I use only JDOM for XML in my projects).
I made a quick fix, but it's using a dirty hack violating (or enhancing ;> )
current server.xml syntax. After applying this patch you can use syntax
like:

<host name="somewhere.com : www.somewhere.com , somewhere.net ,
www.somewhere.net" >

First name is hostname, the rest are aliases, allowed separators are ";" ":"
",", whitespace is ignored. I know it's quick and dirty, but it works and
looks stable - I need it before yesterday, and I'm sure I'm not the only
one.

Patch:

File: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost, line 325, method setName

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    public void setName(String name) {

        if (name == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException
                (sm.getString("standardHost.nullName"));

        name = name.toLowerCase();      // Internally all names are lower case

// ***** patch start

  java.util.StringTokenizer st = new java.util.StringTokenizer( name,
":;," );
  name = st.nextToken().trim();

  while( st.hasMoreTokens() )
   {
    addAlias( st.nextToken().trim() );
   }

// ***** patch end

        String oldName = this.name;
        this.name = name;
        support.firePropertyChange("name", oldName, this.name);

    }
=====

Greetings,
     deacon Marcus