HI Christopher, That is what I have already done ! I thought its not nice users to put the same configuration in to another properties file !
Somehow currently I have a solution but I am trying to find a better solution. I appreciate your responses ! Tomcat user list seems awesome ! Lahiru On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lahiru, > > On 10/6/2011 2:21 PM, Lahiru Gunathilake wrote: > > This is my usecase, I want to register my application URL to a > > repository and there is another remote application who reads that > > URL somewhere and invoke my application. So during the startup I > > need to register them before I get any request. > > Can you solve this with configuration? It seems like simply adding > something like "URLBackToMe" could be configured in a properties file, > web.xml init-param, or even in the JNDI context for the webapp. That > will almost certainly be easier and less error-prone than trying to > sniff the HTTP port from one of Tomcat's connectors. > > In production, we have two connectors: one HTTP and one AJP. The AJP > connector accepts connections from the load-balancer for "regular" > traffic. The HTTP connector accepts localhost-only loopback > connections for operations that do not need to be encrypted. We have > both the "public" and "private" URLs to our webapp in configuration > files so that they can be used as appropriate depending upon the > situation. > > If you had a setup like the above (particularly if you were using two > HTTP connectors instead of one AJP and one HTTP), you might not be > able to tell which connector was the "right" one. Also, you might have > connectors bound to different interfaces to support multi-hostname > SSL, etc. In those cases, how do you determine what the "right" port is? > > I think it's better to solve this with configuration instead of trying > to determine the environment from the inside. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6N+h4ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAitACggQjcKsO2YUO4ZCeVoVQfLavH > aE4AniuyPfiQ9/tx3dN9a0wZsExA12Wz > =Gd3G > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- System Analyst Programmer PTI Lab Indiana University
