Andre, Christopher, and Konstantin,
Thank you for your prompt responses and your suggestions.
I apologize for not indicating my Tomcat version -- it is 5.5.23. My OS
is RHEL 5.6.
I am not intentionally sending HTML e-mails--perhaps my Thunderbird
client is doing something of which I am unaware.
By escaping my punctuation characters, I was able to get
"\*\.googlebot\.com" and other such addresses to work.
I tried to use the filter feature to restrict an IP address to certain
class files only. Here is what I put into web.xml:
<filter>
<filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteAddrFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>deny</param-name>
<param-value>24\.13\.86\.5</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/CyberHTML</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>Remote Address Filter 2</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteAddrFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>allow</param-name>
<param-value>24\.13\.86\.5</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Remote Address Filter 2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/TunnelServlet</url-pattern>
<filter-mapping>
The result was that 24.13.86.5 was denied access to BOTH servlets.
(They are both in the 'classes' subdirectory.) If someone can see
anything I am doing wrong, I would appreciate your response.
Thanks,
Sanford Stein
CyberTools Inc.
