(sigh) Ok, there's do the right thing or brave the proxy approach. Thanks all, I am immensely grateful and impressed with all the advice, warnings, and offers of contacts. Hopefully I can give something back in due course.
Diarmuid On 8 Jan 2015 23:25, "Caldarale, Charles R" <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: dmccrthy [mailto:dmccr...@gmail.com] > > Subject: Re: Tomcat 7.0.56 - How to configure Tomcat/JRE 7u72 for client > HTTPS Mutual > > Authentication connections > > > I found the link below from 2008. > > It looks like a minor change to the Catalina WebAppLoader class might > solve > > the problem and let me provide a custom HTTPS URL protocol handler. Have > I > > misread this? > > > > http://tomcat.10.x6.nabble.com/Custom-URL-handlers-in-Tomcat-web-app-td2006418.html > > This is for requests coming _into_ Tomcat, not any outbound requests your > webapp is doing - which Tomcat is not involved in (or even aware of) at > all. Again, you need some sort of proxy, if your webapp cannot be changed > to do the right thing. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and > its attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >