Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Caine
Markus, Stephen Caine wrote: A simple way to restart Tomcat from a non-root user would be nice. Interesting wish. A non-root user with the right to control my system services is approximately the last thing I would want to see. Well, if you can set a 'user' option for startup, why not s

Re: Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread satish viswanatham
Hi This undeploy does not happen during startup. It happens after receiving few TCP and UDP messages. Now the app gets un-deployed and does not get re-deployed. No additional information was provided why the app got un-deployed. I want to know the root cause of why the app being un-deployed? th

Re: SSL on Windows Vista with Tomcat 5.0.28 not working

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Munroe
On 8/20/07, Brian Munroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There might be some security settings you may need to tweak. What > those are, I have no Idea. > Or after a Google search, because I was curious, IE7 doesn't like SHA-1: http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2007/06/ie7_on_vista_and_ssl.htm

Very Slow Startup with APR

2007-08-20 Thread Adrian Sutton
Hi all, I've been setting up Tomcat 5.5, with Java 5 on a Debian Etch server with a lot of success and just one problem - Tomcat seems to take a long time to load. I think the problem started when I installed APR/ tomcat native and enabled SSL through it but it's hard to pin point because t

Re: AJP talking TLS or SSL

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Munroe
On 8/20/07, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > autossh, but that would fall under your tunneling category. > I think those are only options, I can't think of anything else yep, unfortunately. Thanks anyways. I will probably just end up using IPSec. -- brian -

Re: Can we use output/extras/tomcat-juli.jar by default?

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Thomas
Matthew Kerle wrote: > ok, found the following: > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26372 > & > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27371 (depended-on) > > is that the one you mean? This wasn't one of the ones I was thinking of. > we use commons-logging so we've nev

Re: AJP talking TLS or SSL

2007-08-20 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
Brian Munroe wrote: I am well aware after STW that the 2 best suggestions for securing traffic between Apache httpd and Tomcat over AJP (either using mod_jk_proxy or mod_jk), is: 1. Use either IPSec, stunnel, etc. 2. Don't use AJP and proxy https between Tomcat and Apache. Any other options?

Re: Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
does the undeploy happen during startup? or after running for a while? if it is during runtime, you can disable the host autoDeploy Filip satish viswanatham wrote: Is there way to log more details about why HostConfig checkResources was called? On an exception or some other problem? Aug 20

Re: RES: Resource Security

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Thomas
Milanez, Marcus wrote: Should I always assume that the resources that my application access (like a database for example) doesn't need additional security, because it is hosted in a server, and if this so called server was attacked them worse things could actually happen? Generally I would expect w

Re: SSL on Windows Vista with Tomcat 5.0.28 not working

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Munroe
On 8/20/07, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like time to start looking at the network traffic to figure out > what is going wrong. > Either that, or my guess is Vista is being "helpful" and not allowing sites with self-signed or untrusted SSL certificates to pass through to the use

AJP talking TLS or SSL

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Munroe
I am well aware after STW that the 2 best suggestions for securing traffic between Apache httpd and Tomcat over AJP (either using mod_jk_proxy or mod_jk), is: 1. Use either IPSec, stunnel, etc. 2. Don't use AJP and proxy https between Tomcat and Apache. Any other options? I'd really like to e

Re: SSL on Windows Vista with Tomcat 5.0.28 not working

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Thomas
David Roberts wrote: > Anyone know how I can allow Internet Explorer on Windows Vista to see an SSL > based webapp, running on Tomcat 5.0.28 with j2sdk1.4.2_06, when using your > own certificate? Looks like time to start looking at the network traffic to figure out what is going wrong. Mark --

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Stephen Caine wrote: > A simple way to restart Tomcat from a non-root user would be nice. Interesting wish. A non-root user with the right to control my system services is approximately the last thing I would want to see. Regards mks ---

Re: Can we use output/extras/tomcat-juli.jar by default?

2007-08-20 Thread fredk2
Hi, If I understand Filip's answer correctly... the difference between the default tomcat-juli.jar and the output/extras/tomcat-juli.jar is that the first one is some glue code that hardcodes commons-logging to work only with java.util.logging and the second supports the "complete" commons-loggi

Re: Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread satish viswanatham
Is there way to log more details about why HostConfig checkResources was called? On an exception or some other problem? Aug 20, 2007 1:24:54 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfigcheckResources > INFO: Undeploying context [/tester] thanks Satish On 8/20/07, satish viswanatham <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Kim Albee
Tracy, The JSP does a call to a method in our app -- which if it runs, that means the app is up and available -- the method does a simple query against the DB and then returns a status of OK if the method runs through just fine. In our example from this weekend -- the health.jsp (which is the one

Re: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Kim Albee
Dan, True enough, except then those queries would get held as a user session, and we don't want that -- which is why we have a 'skinny' health.jsp that checks our app -- and 'should' crash if there are any issues with tomcat or the application -- but in this case, the main pages were getting out o

Re: Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread satish viswanatham
Hi Filip, Thank you for a quick response. I do have reloadable="false" in my context. I do not see web.xml's time stamp changing. thanks Satish On 8/20/07, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > make sure your turn reloadable="false" for your context, > and make sure nothing m

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Caine
Well, since you asked... ... or use jsvc which lets Tomcat drop privileges after binding to a privileged port and which is distributed with the Tomcat archives. Did you use it? did you like it? We have no reason but the port to give the tomcat-user any privilege (even if only at booting);

Joakim T Monstad is out of the office.

2007-08-20 Thread JMonstad
I will be out of the office starting 08/20/2007 and will not return until 08/23/2007. I will respond to your message when I return, but can be reached at 952 836 4385 (send a txt if possible, since I won't be able to answer many calls)

Re: Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
make sure your turn reloadable="false" for your context, and make sure nothing modifies the timestamp of WEB-INF/web.xml Filip satish viswanatham wrote: Hi I have a Servlet- which start TCP and UDP MINA servers. After receiving few packets on the server - the servlet gets un-deployed. Not java

Running MINA inside Tomcat causing problems.

2007-08-20 Thread satish viswanatham
Hi I have a Servlet- which start TCP and UDP MINA servers. After receiving few packets on the server - the servlet gets un-deployed. Not java stack trace or details were available in the logs. Is there is a way to debug this? The code runs fine outside Tomcat. I think MINA uses Sl4J and I made su

Re: replication not working

2007-08-20 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
the easiest way to fix it would be 1. check what name the command `hostname` spits out 2. make sure that /etc/hosts contains that hostname and IP address or you could go the other way http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/cluster-receiver.html look for the address attribute see the http

Apache Tomcat Connector connection pool's relation to workers and processes?

2007-08-20 Thread Brian.Horblit
First, thanks in advance! I have been playing with the 1.2.23 version of the JK Connector. In particular, I've been setting up an Apache 2 front end to multiple Tomcat 6's by using load balancing workers delegating to "real" workers. For the most part the documentation is quite clear, but somethi

RE: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Brian.Horblit
Kim, You mentiond "fool-proof"... Perhaps a multi-pronged approach is best, if you have the time and inclination to implement it. 1) Apps can have "issues" for lots of reasons (running out of memory, db load and/or locks, thread deadlocks, etc, etc.) In lots of cases the VM/Tomcat are "OK", but

Re: load balancing

2007-08-20 Thread Rainer Jung
You might need to think about the necessary aspects of your solution first. Some of those might be: - Necessity of High Availability, more precisely, amount of availability needed (planned and unplanned downtimes, allowed planned downtimes, when and how long and how much in before declared)

replication not working

2007-08-20 Thread Tony Jurado
Greetings. I have trolled the mailing list archives, but didn't see anything that helped me, so, I'm hoping that some kind soul can offer some insight. I have just upgraded our production servers from Apache 2.0.53, Tomcat 5.5.23, mod_jk 1.2.19 to Apache 2.2.4, Tomcat 6.0.13, mod_jk 1.2.25 in ord

load balancing

2007-08-20 Thread Asensio, Rodrigo
Hi, I'm planing to do load balancing on my 3 apache tomcat server. Actually they are windows 2003, 5.5.23, ibm jdk 1.5. I'm planing to put a linux in the front who balances the load for the 3 servers. I read about the issue and there are several solutions. This is a small farm, maybe up to 10 serve

Failed to connect to remote VM. Connection refused

2007-08-20 Thread Andrew Hole
I configure tomcat to debug remotly from Eclipse: start "Configure Tomcat". Go to Java tab. add the following 2 lines. -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n Then go to Startup tab and add the following two lines in the arguments entry box. jpda start Restarting tom

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
You guys have no idea how happy I am. David Hesson wrote: Opera totally works. I just uploaded a 4.2GB file with it :) Thank you guys so much. Solution to uploading >2GB files was indeed not a Tomcat issue. The login page will now contain the following text: To upload files > 2GB, here ar

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Opera totally works. I just uploaded a 4.2GB file with it :) Thank you guys so much. Solution to uploading >2GB files was indeed not a Tomcat issue. The login page will now contain the following text: To upload files > 2GB, here are a list of browsers... 1) Opera 2) ? :) Cheers and many t

RE: FW: Filter

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Souther
Just like with sendRedirect, you would branch your code so that it either forwards to your 'denyURI' page or calls doFilter. On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:42, Hehl, Thomas wrote: > Hmmm. So then for the example cited, the parameter to getRequestDispatcher() > would be denyURI? > > What about the doFi

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Thanks, will do. Len Popp wrote: Yes, I've seen problems with IE and Firefox uploading files > 2GB (but I haven't tested the latest versions). The browser either sends a bogus Content-Length, or it doesn't send a request at all! David, try your test JSP with the Opera browser. It seems to be ab

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Len Popp
Yes, I've seen problems with IE and Firefox uploading files > 2GB (but I haven't tested the latest versions). The browser either sends a bogus Content-Length, or it doesn't send a request at all! David, try your test JSP with the Opera browser. It seems to be able to send large files. -- Len On

RE: FW: Filter

2007-08-20 Thread Hehl, Thomas
Hmmm. So then for the example cited, the parameter to getRequestDispatcher() would be denyURI? What about the doFilter()? -Original Message- From: Ben Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 12:39 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: FW: Filter Look at RequestDi

Re: FW: Filter

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Souther
Look at RequestDispatcher.forward. All of this takes place on the server and doesn't change the URL. http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/RequestDispatcher.html#forward(javax.servlet.ServletRequest,%20javax.servlet.ServletResponse) On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:35, Hehl, Thomas wrote:

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, David Hesson wrote: > Servlets are never reached in the web application, only the filters are > hit. Servlet calls seem to be getting skipped. Your filters are called, but not the servlet? That's odd. Can you post the code to your filters? Or

Re: Will a fix to 5.5 be done for CVE-2007-3382 and CVE-2007-3385?

2007-08-20 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
a 5.5.25 tag is planned for Friday, includes both of those fixes Filip Lanoux, Mark wrote: Does any know if a fix to Tomcat 5.5 will be done to remediate security issues CVE-2007-3382 and CVE-2007-3385? http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Aug/1018556.html http://securitytracker.com/alerts/

Re: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan, Dan Armbrust wrote: A simple cron job that points to a URL using lynx, and greps the output for what it should see will do the trick... I would use wget instead of Lynx, but that's just me. Don't forget that the O

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Well I am a new developer (I was still in college when I began helping with this project) My boss told me the client would like to use .NET, and I got kind of excited because I haven't worked with .NET/ASP/C# for quite a bit, and I love the compiler, but he talked the client out of it (the cli

RE: Possible Tomcat + Javascript + Internet Explorer Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Nelson, Tracy M.
| From: redminator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, 20 August, 2007 02:50 | | I have some javascript code that creates a slide menu. It works fine both | in IE and Mozilla. | | But, when I integrate that code in a page which I open from tomcat, the | code | doesn't work anymore when I

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus, Markus Schiegl wrote: > a few days ago i had the same question/problem. i found: > > http://www.motobit.com/help/scptutl/pa98.htm > > If this is correct (my own limited tests confirmed it) you're effectivly > limited to 2GB uploads using HTT

Re: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan, Dan Armbrust wrote: > A simple cron job that points to a URL using lynx, and greps the > output for what it should see will do the trick... I would use wget instead of Lynx, but that's just me. Don't forget that the OP said that his JSPs appear

RE: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Nelson, Tracy M.
How is your JSP checking your application? Are you issuing a request to your app and checking the HTTP status? If so, why isn't it recognizing the 500? Or is the JSP in your application which is failing? | -Original Message- | From: Kim Albee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, 20

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schiegl
Hi, a few days ago i had the same question/problem. i found: http://www.motobit.com/help/scptutl/pa98.htm If this is correct (my own limited tests confirmed it) you're effectivly limited to 2GB uploads using HTTP and it's not tomcat's problem alone - if at all. kind regards, Markus David He

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, David Hesson wrote: > I have installed 6.0.14 now and the same problem persists. I am > starting to worry about our choice to use Java for this web application > project now... I know for a fact that Tomcat 5.5 can accept bigger-than-2GB uplo

Re: Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Armbrust
A simple cron job that points to a URL using lynx, and greps the output for what it should see will do the trick... Dan On 8/20/07, Kim Albee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello -- > > We have a load balanced situation, and we have a JSP that runs and checks > our application to ensure it's up and

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, David Hesson wrote: > Hello, thanks for the information received thus far and trying to assist > me. With regards to the Integer problem: [snip] > C:\Documents and Settings\David\Desktop>java test > -2147483640 > > It overflows when they are

RE: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: David Hesson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads > > If I were to compile and run all this on a 64 bit, > do integers use 32 bit still Recompilation for different platforms is never needed for Java code - that's one of its advant

Re: How to detect user logins

2007-08-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, David Delbecq wrote: > For now, the layout is Filter that check userPrincipal. If user > principal is not null for the first time, issues that check, mark > that user got checked for next times, in session, and continue query. > However, if i

Will a fix to 5.5 be done for CVE-2007-3382 and CVE-2007-3385?

2007-08-20 Thread Lanoux, Mark
Does any know if a fix to Tomcat 5.5 will be done to remediate security issues CVE-2007-3382 and CVE-2007-3385? http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Aug/1018556.html http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Aug/1018557.html We would rather not have to upgrade to 6.0.14 at this time Thanks,

FW: Filter

2007-08-20 Thread Hehl, Thomas
OK, since no one had a suggestion about that, is there ways out of a filter that won't re-write the URL? Maybe instead of using response.redirect? Thanks. _ From: Hehl, Thomas Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:42 AM To: 'users@tomcat.apache.org' Subject: Filter Our application h

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Wow, I wonder if I'm going to have to do some kind of Applet to get this to work properly? Another solution is forwarding requests to some FTP app, but they want progress bars. If I were to compile and run all this on a 64 bit, do integers use 32 bit still or are they knocked up to 64 in Java

RE: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: David kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Do you know if .NOT will let upload these giant files? Definitely not on 32-bit (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295626). The address space maxes out at 1 Gbyte, and IIS has to buffer the bytes in RAM before ASP.NET can process them. http://as

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
No clue, I guess that is an assumption on my behalf. If it doesn't, I'd be delighted to know that. Will do some research shortly. David kerber wrote: David Hesson wrote: I have installed 6.0.14 now and the same problem persists. I am starting to worry about our choice to use Java for this w

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David kerber
David Hesson wrote: I have installed 6.0.14 now and the same problem persists. I am starting to worry about our choice to use Java for this web application project now... the client insisted that we used .NET framework or 'Microsoft' products if you will, but limitations arise. I just won't

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Currently, I am posting to another jsp page that just prints out the method used (should say post if all goes well). I have a Servlet that I use to write files that works on everything under 2GB, but on large uploads, the thread is never hit, thus I began posting to a tmp.jsp page until I figu

Does anyone have an approach to checking if Tomcat instance is UP?

2007-08-20 Thread Kim Albee
Hello -- We have a load balanced situation, and we have a JSP that runs and checks our application to ensure it's up and returns a string that the monitor app is looking for if all is well. Repeatedly, that JSP will work, but the site is down because Tomcat hit an OutOfMemory exception -- but our

RE: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: David Hesson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads > > I have installed 6.0.14 now and the same problem persists. Can you post your servlet/JSP code (if it's not excessively large)? IIRC, you're using Commons FileUpload 1.2; is tha

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
I have installed 6.0.14 now and the same problem persists. I am starting to worry about our choice to use Java for this web application project now... the client insisted that we used .NET framework or 'Microsoft' products if you will, but limitations arise. I just won't be able to stand the

RE: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: David Hesson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads > > I haven't checked where the content length is pulled from > a String but if it does cause a crash, then it is handled > internally Here's the code of interest: public int

RES: Resource Security

2007-08-20 Thread Milanez, Marcus
For all those interested in tightening tomcat security, there are some interesting advices from OWASP here http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Securing_tomcat Yours, Marcus Milanez -Mensagem original- De: Milanez, Marcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 20 de agosto de 2

Re: Multi-Gigabyte Uploads, Tomcat 2GB and higher uploads

2007-08-20 Thread David Hesson
Hello, thanks for the information received thus far and trying to assist me. With regards to the Integer problem: public class test { public static void main (String []args) { int j = 10; int y = 2147483646; int result = j + y; System.out.println( result ); } } C:\

RES: Resource Security

2007-08-20 Thread Milanez, Marcus
Mark, First of all, let me thank you for your detailed response. This list contains lots of qualified people, and I'm really glad I'm part of it because I'm learning more and more everyday. All the reasons you mentioned are reasonable, but there are some pointes that makes me think a lot (an

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Lorenzo Cerini wrote: > Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> ... or use jsvc which lets Tomcat drop privileges after binding to a >> privileged port and which is distributed with the Tomcat archives. >> > Did you use it? > did you like it? Yes. Yes. > We have no reason but the port to give the tomcat

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread David Smith
The commons-daemon project (better known on this list as jsvc) will allow startup as a non-root user and access to ports below 1024. See http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon for details. --David Lorenzo Cerini wrote: Markus Schönhaber wrote: Stephen Caine wrote: We use Tomcat SSL

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Cerini
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Lorenzo Cerini schrieb: Markus Schönhaber wrote: Stephen Caine wrote: We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The only issue has been the using port 8443 as some firewalls block access. Why don't you tell Tomca

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Stephen Caine schrieb: > I previously posted a question about port redirection which was > answered. I was referring to that previous post. Well, there seems to be something wrong with my crystal ball. I'll have to get this damned thing checked ;-) Regards mks

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Lorenzo Cerini schrieb: > Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> Stephen Caine wrote: >> >> >>> We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The >>> only issue has been the using port 8443 as some firewalls block access. >>> >> Why don't you tell Tomcat to use the port you want it

Re: SSL port number (was: Re: Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache)

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Caine
Markus, I previously posted a question about port redirection which was answered. I was referring to that previous post. Stephen We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The only issue has been the using port 8443 as some firewalls block access. Why don't you t

Re: Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Berglas, Anthony schrieb: > Has anyone done any performance analysis of Tomcat's SSL performance, > especially compared to Apache. It is rumored that Tomcat is unusable > without Apache in front for SSL, but I wonder if that is true. And whoever made this claim did surely provide a verifiable

Re: SSL port number

2007-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Cerini
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Stephen Caine wrote: We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The only issue has been the using port 8443 as some firewalls block access. Why don't you tell Tomcat to use the port you want it to use - for You cannot access port below

Re: Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache

2007-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Cerini
Hi, all we use SSL tomcat for our web applications. Since i work in the transport branch, where there is a lot of real time, automatic data exchange, i can say tomcat alone for SSL'ed services is very stable, and even easier to manage than the apache-httpd. About fastness and scalability is a m

SSL port number (was: Re: Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache)

2007-08-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Stephen Caine wrote: > We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The > only issue has been the using port 8443 as some firewalls block access. Why don't you tell Tomcat to use the port you want it to use - for example 443? Regards mks ---

Re: Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Caine
Anthony, Has anyone done any performance analysis of Tomcat's SSL performance, especially compared to Apache. It is rumored that Tomcat is unusable without Apache in front for SSL, but I wonder if that is true. We use Tomcat SSL without Apache and it has been very stable. The only iss

Filter

2007-08-20 Thread Hehl, Thomas
Our application has a security filter on it that ensures access to all servlets is from a logged in user. This has worked fine for years. We are now testing over this new security software that relays requests from an external webapp to our internal one. The problem is that the security filter

Very large catalina.out containing millions of 'null characters'

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Stevens
Another strange one from me, When starting/restarting Tomcat, it automatically creates a 250MB(Approx) catalina.out file, when viewing the file, it only has couple of hundred lines showing normal log messages(no errors) however when opening the file it 'vi' the status line states there are million

SSL on Windows Vista with Tomcat 5.0.28 not working

2007-08-20 Thread David Roberts
Hi, I am using Tomcat 5.0.28, and I use SSL for my webapp. I am using j2sdk1.4.2_06. I have created my own SSL certificate for our server, using the Java keytool utility. Everything works fine when using Internet Explorer on Windows XP. You simply click Yes when the browser prompts you about

Re: Possible Tomcat + Javascript + Internet Explorer Problem

2007-08-20 Thread David Smith
Check your page output -- are the .. tags getting collapsed to ? If so, try to put a comment in between to see if that helps prevent the collapse. I remember having problems with collapsing script tags that load javascript from a separate file. --David redminator wrote: I have some javascr

How to detect user logins

2007-08-20 Thread David Delbecq
Hello, I'm in a situation where i need some operations to be done upon user login. The idea is, when a user access a secured area, it get's first promped for http auth (security constraint, that part is working without trouble), but when the user get authenticated, before giving user his request r

Re: Tomcat on FreeBSD

2007-08-20 Thread Ronald Klop
What java version are you running? Ronald. On Fri Aug 17 16:00:41 CEST 2007 Tomcat Users List wrote: Hi, I have installed Tomcat 5.5.23_1 on FreeBSD 6.2. I have used Servlets a lot in the past but have not used ant. I am now trying to get this development environment to work. Following the

Re: Enable file downloads outside the application tree

2007-08-20 Thread David Delbecq
If your OS allow it, use symbolic links + context->allowLinking=true En l'instant précis du 20/08/07 07:49, Glenn McCall s'exprimait en ces termes: > Hi I have a bulletin board scenarion (i.e. people can download files = > that others have uploaded). > > The easiest solution is to simply save the u

Re: Possible Tomcat + Javascript + Internet Explorer Problem

2007-08-20 Thread David Delbecq
2 possibilities. Either your IE is configured to refuse javascript from the "internet area" and so you need to check your IE configuration, Either your java script is playing with the urls and badly handles the ;JESSIONID=xxx that tomcat add to your url if they have been made using J2EE compli

Tomcat SSL/HTTPS Performance vs Apache

2007-08-20 Thread Berglas, Anthony
Has anyone done any performance analysis of Tomcat's SSL performance, especially compared to Apache. It is rumored that Tomcat is unusable without Apache in front for SSL, but I wonder if that is true. Our application will have lots of clients making short connections, so it is the RSA processi

Possible Tomcat + Javascript + Internet Explorer Problem

2007-08-20 Thread redminator
I have some javascript code that creates a slide menu. It works fine both in IE and Mozilla. But, when I integrate that code in a page which I open from tomcat, the code doesn't work anymore when I use IE. Still works fine with Mozila. I asked this question on a javascript forum and they suggest

Re: mod_jk, Tomcat, Session, Servlets & Portlets

2007-08-20 Thread Benny Bräuer
Hi Rainer, I'm not using any Forward-JkOptions. Thanks for the information about the session kinds, maybe I can use it to manipulate the session manually. -- Cheers, Benny Benny Bräuer C3-Grid Developing @ Computing and Data Centre Alfred-Wegener-Institute for polar and marine research 27570 Br