If you want the request ip in your servlet use;
getThreadLocalRequest().getHeader("X-Forwarded-For");
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 7:22 PM 'dav...@googlemail.com' via GWT Users <
google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Leon
>
> The servelet runs at *subdomain.mydomain.com/foo/bah
> <http://subdomain.mydomain.com/foo/bah>*. To enable the client code on
> mydomain.com to connect, I configure apache and tomcat to make that
> servelet also appear at *mydomain.com/foo/bah
> <http://mydomain.com/foo/bah> *by proxying. It's great! I get the request
> ip as I wanted, but the request is from the server itself, not from the
> remote ip of the end user.
>
> I think I've read that there is a way to allow java rpc to go outside the
> originating domain? I will look into that.
>
> On Friday, 10 November 2023 at 17:48:08 UTC Leon wrote:
>
>> What can never work?
>> I have done this many times with gwt applications. Works like charm.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 6:34 PM 'dav...@googlemail.com' via GWT Users <
>> google-we...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Spot why this can never work ie running a site on apache2 that proxies
>>> to a webapp running on tomcat to get the request ip address
>>>
>>> clue -whose ip address is going to be returned? :-)
>>>
>>> On Friday, 10 November 2023 at 16:24:24 UTC dav...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Leon, Ed
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for looking at this. I realized I have an apache2 problem at
>>>> this stage more than a GWT one.
>>>>
>>>> A bit of proxy code in tomcat and apache2 + enabling proxy_http has
>>>> fixed the problem. Most of my enlightenment came from
>>>>
>>>> *https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/proxy-howto.html#Apache_httpd_Proxy_Support
>>>> <https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/proxy-howto.html#Apache_httpd_Proxy_Support>*
>>>>
>>>> and also seeing that an apache module was needed from the logs.
>>>> Production machine is debian and proxy_http does not seem to be enabled by
>>>> default.
>>>>
>>>> I expect there are other ways to skin this cat, especially since I'm
>>>> using AJP anyway, but I think I'll leave it here :-)
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>> On Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 19:33:37 UTC Ed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> i think gwt has a same source domain filter
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:47 AM Leon <leon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I know, gwt uses relative paths wrt it's own context root.
>>>>>> So the client calls should always be able to reach the gwt servlets. I've
>>>>>> never had to configure anything to make that happen.
>>>>>> If you setup apache2 to forward virtual name based hosts to tomcat,
>>>>>> apache2 is nothing more than a proxy server to 127.0.0.1:8080. Then
>>>>>> you can keep the tomcat fairly simple and straightforward.
>>>>>> There are multiple examples online of how to deploy a .war file to
>>>>>> tomcat on the internet. It's nothing more than that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 6:34 PM 'dav...@googlemail.com' via GWT Users
>>>>>> <google-we...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yeah that sounds doable, I think it's along the lines I was already
>>>>>>> thinking
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So* mydomain..com* is served by apache2 and includes the GWT
>>>>>>> javascript
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apache2 also has a conf for *subdomain.mydomain.com
>>>>>>> <http://subdomain.mydomain.com>* that creates a backend AJP to
>>>>>>> tomcat where I serve subdomain.*mydomain.com/appA
>>>>>>> <http://mydomain.com/appA>* and subdomain.*mydomain.com/appB
>>>>>>> <http://mydomain.com/appB>*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I just create a ROOT folder in webapps, pop a copy of my GWT
>>>>>>> code's WEB-INF there and that does a job.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But not the job! The servelet that GWT server code creates to pass
>>>>>>> the remote ip to the client code is now running at
>>>>>>> *subdomain.mydomain.com/foo/bar
>>>>>>> <http://subdomain.mydomain.com/foo/bar>* instead of
>>>>>>> *mydomain.com/foo/bar
>>>>>>> <http://mydomain.com/foo/bar>*, so the GWT produced client
>>>>>>> javascript served at *mydomain.com <http://mydomain.com>* and the
>>>>>>> servelet can't talk.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I feel there must be a solution, but just now I don't see it and
>>>>>>> even thus far, I feel I'm jumping through hoops. Am I missing a
>>>>>>> *recommended
>>>>>>> way* to do this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 13:40:02 UTC Leon Pennings wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can deploy the web application on tomcat and use mod_proxy on
>>>>>>>> apache2 to forward https (or http if required) to tomcat on 8080 (or
>>>>>>>> another port if required)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Op woensdag 8 november 2023 om 18:31:19 UTC+1 schreef
>>>>>>>> dav...@googlemail.com:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> hi Ed
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yes understood and most of the "app" is GWT produced javascript,
>>>>>>>>> part of a web page, which I've always run on apache2 and don't really
>>>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>>>> to change that for the ip address supplying servelet which is a recent
>>>>>>>>> addition. I already also run a backend tomcat with an AJP connection
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> apache2 for a couple of java coded apps. So is setting up the WEB-INF
>>>>>>>>> directory of my GWT "app" separately in tomcat the preferred way to
>>>>>>>>> do this
>>>>>>>>> or at least a possibility?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Prior to adding the server code the WEB_INF directory was not
>>>>>>>>> needed by apache2 I believe, rather just the javascript, directory.
>>>>>>>>> so that
>>>>>>>>> does appear to be a reasonable way to go?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> David
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 8 November 2023 at 12:31:36 UTC Ed wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> jetty is application server while apache2 is a web server.
>>>>>>>>>> tomcat is the apache app server.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:48 AM 'dav...@googlemail.com' via GWT
>>>>>>>>>> Users <google-we...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On my development machine I test my code in jetty. The client
>>>>>>>>>>> code calls a server to get the client ip address. This works fine
>>>>>>>>>>> and I see
>>>>>>>>>>> a server at localhost:8080/foo/bar as I expect. If I browse to it I
>>>>>>>>>>> get a
>>>>>>>>>>> 405 as GET request are not allowed, but that's not a problem as it
>>>>>>>>>>> does the
>>>>>>>>>>> job it's supposed to do ie pass request address back to client code.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It does not work in production were the code is run on apache;
>>>>>>>>>>> the server is not created as on jetty, so that's not unexpected. I
>>>>>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>>>>>> suspicion was that modsecurity is preventing the creation of the
>>>>>>>>>>> server,
>>>>>>>>>>> but that proves to be not so. I also see the same failure over http
>>>>>>>>>>> as over
>>>>>>>>>>> https.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I have a pretty basic apache2 setup on debian (apart from adding
>>>>>>>>>>> modsecurity) and the site config is pretty bog standard for both
>>>>>>>>>>> http and
>>>>>>>>>>> https. I'm guessing I need to tweak something somewhere to allow
>>>>>>>>>>> the server
>>>>>>>>>>> to be created?
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