I'm wondering if someone can explain something fairly basic for me.
We're using axis with CommonsHTTPSender in order to get Keep Alive to work, in preparation for implementing SSL.
I understand how the axis config can control the class which does the socket handling on the client, but on the server, it seems that Tomcat would be handling the HTTP connection itself, and just handing AxisServlet the HTTPServletRequest and Response objects -- ie., I don't see how axis gets a chance to configure what class does the HTTP connection handling in Tomcat.
How does this work? Does Tomcat actually use HTTPClient when you specify the following in deploy.wsdd?
<transport name="http" pivot="java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.CommonsHTTPSender">
<requestFlow>
<handler type="URLMapper"/>
<handler type="java:org.apache.axis.handlers.http.HTTPAuthHandler"/>
</requestFlow>
<parameter name="qs:list" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSListHandler"/>
<parameter name="qs:wsdl" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSWSDLHandler"/>
<parameter name="qs:method" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSMethodHandler"/>
</transport>
How does that work? Where should I start looking to understand this piece of axis?
Thanks for any help at all.
--Peter
