uday shankar Aghalaya boregowda wrote: > I am facing a peculiar issue in my server running Apache Tomcat/5.5.9. > I have a Tomcat server setup with 8080 and 8443 ports listening for http > and https connections. > > When I access the tomcat welcome page hosted in my server as below, > http://<servername>:8080 OR https://<servername>:8443 > > I get the expected web page. But when I change the scheme and port number, > as below, > http://<servername>:8443 > This is what happens, > In IE: > Displays junk characters (in precise, 4 boxes) > > In Mozilla/Safari(Mac): > Downloads a junk file which says that it is of type > "application/octet-stream"
Accessing an HTTPS Connector via an http:// URL (or vice versa) won't work. It's as simple as that. > To shed some more light on the issue, > When I changed the secure server port to 443 and i tried accessing URL, > http://<servername>:443 it took me to the default tomcat welcome page and > for any other port other than 443, it gave me the same behavior. I don't think you changed the port of the HTTPS Connector but the HTTP Connector. > Please let me know if there is any solution for this above scenario and > your comments on what is causing this behavior. Of course there's a solution for the strange behaviour you see when you access an HTTPS Connector via http://: Stop doing that. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
