Thanks for the pointers to the jMeter AJP client and also the URL session & jvm route idea.
If I used the jSession idea, I am assuiming I could filter apache on "." + jvmRoute ... right? and redirect to relevant AJP/Tomcat. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew, > > On 3/31/2010 3:02 AM, Andrew Bruno wrote: > > I would like to split the web app up, so that the front end server has > > smarts to know which backend tomcat server to redirect to. > > > > As far as I know, Apache AJP can be configured to redirect to different > > tomcat backend servers by implementing rules, ideally URL based. But for > > me, the URL is always the same. > > > > So, I was wondering if there was a way to code an AJP client inside a > front > > end tomcat server, so that I could redirect to whatever backend server > the > > business rules decided. > > You can force Apache httpd to direct a request to a particular backend > Tomcat server by putting a specially-crafted jsessionid into the URL. If > you don't use cookies to track the session for these requests, you > should be able to create a URL like this: > > URL + ";jsessionid=" + sessionId + "." + jvmRoute + "?" + queryString > > Would something like this work for you? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuzV/kACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBfPQCgutR+7yGVAYI3MbKkMM1u5Rlp > KzUAnjojlVj4Z6rJinYPVvQ1OV4590Ar > =qOiH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
