I have discovered that the RemoteIPValve which has been shipped with Tomcat since v6.0.24 also performs the tasks am trying to perform with my valve. I had overlooked it previously due to its name.
We are using v6.0.26, so I'll give it a whirl! Cheers, Matt. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 8:06 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Setting scheme on catalina Requests -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt, On 6/13/2010 6:03 PM, Matt Peterson wrote: > I am trying to develop a valve to modify requests based on a HTTP request > header as set by our SSL terminating load balancer. The valve is to watch > out for a particular header and when found, call the setSecure(true), > setScheme("https") and setServerPort(443) methods so that the receiving > servlet is aware that the request is a secure one. Why set the server port? You may end up confusing code that performs redirects and things like that. Can you get away with simply setSecure()/setScheme()? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwWp88ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCE6QCePtQgxZKDiDgB7GVjRK7HiM2k IA0An3Wnzw4RdIM1IMHw+q4WNFupseiv =EHI5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
