On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:01 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> > There are a number of open-source "proxy servlets" available from > third-parties, if you search Google for "java proxy servlet" e.g. > There is even a Tomcat WiKi article on the subject, mentioning some. > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/ServletProxy > > Note that what we still do not know here, is why you need this proxy > servlet at all in your Tomcat. Apart from just proxying back and forth, is > your Tomcat proxy servlet actually supposed to modify either the request of > the response, with something that only a Tomcat-based webapp would know how > to do ? > And if not, why do you not use another webserver for that, such as Apache > httpd, which does contain well-written and well-tested proxy code ? > (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html) > > Thanks - I briefly looked at mod_proxy awhile back, I will check out the other link. As Chris mentioned, it's partly having to make javascript calls to another host. I'll elaborate on the other part in a reply to him.
