Jose María Zaragoza wrote:
Hello:
I would like to create a web filter to forward some requests to
another webserver,
The filter receives an "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" request ,
inspects the value of a parameter and chooses to forward to another
remote webserver ( as a proxy )
I've seen some posts where they open a HttpURLConnection to remote
server and send the request. This is right for me, but I'd would like
if there is another way ( easier ) to implement it.
Hi.
The only easier way is to do your proxying before the request even gets to Tomcat (e.g.
via an Apache httpd front-end, which conditionally proxies to Tomcat or to the other
webserver). That is easier, because Apache httpd already has well-tested and widely-used
proxy modules built-in. But of course it depends on whether the Apache front-end would be
able to test the "parameter" you are referring to.
(It can do that kind of thing via Apache directives such as "SetEnvIf", and via
mod_rewrite).
For Tomcat, there is no such ready-made Proxy webapp available, so you have to
do it yourself.
That can be relatively simple or quite complicated, depending on what the requests are and
what the proxied-to application is like.
There was a thread on this list a couple of days ago which was related to a
similar case.
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