Ralph Sakhr wrote: > >> the stock quote service tries to go through your firewall. Unless >> you run tomcat with proxy settings (something like >> -Dhttp.proxyhost=foo -Dhttp.proxyport=8080 ) it wont work > > Thanks for the hint regarding firewalls. I dont know a thing about > them. My firewall allows me to make usual Get/Post requests in HTTP. > Wouldn't the stock quote service also use the regular HTTP port? If > so why is the firewall an issue?
Depends on your firewall. "usual Get/Post requests in HTTP" go across port 80. Your firewall might not like the use of port 8080 without the use of a proxy. - Sam Ruby
