One of the things I thought AJP did that HTTP proxying to Tomcat could not (but correct me here if I'm wrong) is let the servelt container know whether or not the connection is HTTP vs. HTTPS. This sort of information needs to get passed back to the servlet container to satisfy the servlet specification.
Typcially, in an Apache/Tomcat configuration, Apache deals with all of the https connections (because it's better at it), and requests for servlet/JSP stuff are passed back to Tomcat, with information on whether or not the connection Apache has with the browser is HTTP or HTTPS. Anyway, for business sites, any servlet being able to know if the original connection was secure or not is a total deal-breaker on whether or not to use a particular technology (in this case, Apache/Tomcat) to host a web site. Also, servlets (by the specification) need to be able to manipulate HTP request headers, particularly where cookies are concerned. I was under the impression that AJP allowed this, whereas mod_proxy did not, but perhaps I am wrong? -Manni -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Frazee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev Please pardon me for attempting to marshall the obvious however what is the advantage of AJP/1.x over HTTP? Why is it worth the development time of apache volunteers? And why is AJP so advantageous over HTTP/1.1 that we should redesign existing modules to use it? I do apologize but I am not really familiar with the inner workings of tomcat as no webhost I have worked for to date has really pushed it. I think the answers to these questions would be useful for all of us who are more-or-less "pure" apache users/devs... -- -------------------- Wayne S. Frazee "Any sufficiently developed bug is indistinguishable from a feature." On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:51, Henri Gomez wrote: > Manni Wood wrote: > > - Could mod_proxy be open to support AJP/1.x as tomcat connections ? > > - Should we learn from mod_proxy to redesign something using AJP ? > > > Many questions which need experts answers... >
