Hi, The purpose is to set-up an independent web-app as a proxy for other webapps. I cannot touch the 6 original webapps, but I can do whatever I want with the proxy one.
How can I get all requests to any of these webapps be intercepted by the proxy one? Thanks. > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:27:39 +0100 > From: p...@pidster.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Connector set up > > On 22/08/2009 21:37, Gerardo Corro wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have 6 different web-apps (let's call their contexts /wa1, /wa2 ... > > /wa6) running in port 8080. > > > > I have another web-app named /proxy running on port 80. As the name > > suggests this web-app does proxy functions for the other 6 web-apps. This > > proxy basically is meant to go to any of the web-apps and follow any number > > of redirects until a final page is reached, so external clients always get > > the needed resource in one shot. > > > > For instance, a client requests: http://hostname:80/wa1/resourcex, then the > > request should actually go to http://hostname:80/proxy, after that the > > proxy makes all calls following redirects to > > http://hostname:8080/wa/resourcex (where the actual web-app context runs) > > and returns the final result to the client. > > > > Somebody suggested this could be done with what is called "connectors", I > > already read the documentation but honestly did not get how to actually get > > this done. > > Who was the "somebody"? Maybe you should ask them to elaborate, because > I'm not aware of a Tomcat Connector that does this type of thing. > > I've not heard of this type of requirement before either, (but then I've > led a sheltered life), what purpose does this serve? > > p > > > > > Please assist. Thanks in advanced! > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx
