issue 44494 (Requests greater that 8K being truncated)

2008-07-14 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
By the comments in issue 44494, this bug appears to be fixed and is planned to be released in the next update of Tomcat 5.5.x. I've taken a quick look on the Tomcat site and didn't find a release plan. My question is: What, if any, is the timeframe for this next release? I've been bitten by

RE: How to force HTTPS on some of Struts-based site

2008-04-03 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
AGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gordon, > > Hyatt, Gordon wrote: > | The intent is as follows: > | > | For the main site: plain HTTP access > | > | For the administration and sample submission areas, require > | authentication over HTTPS > | >

How to force HTTPS on some of Struts-based site

2008-04-01 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
I'm trying to add Authentication (over HTTPS) to a Struts-based web app and am running into problems. I can get Tomcat (5.5.26) to authenticate the user (using Basic login) without issue, but I can't seem to get a Struts-based login form to work. Because of the way the passwords are encrypted,

Securing Tomcat on FC8

2008-03-28 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
I've just finished reading the Tomcat Security chapter of O'Reilly's Tomcat, The Definitive Guide that covers Tomcat 4 and have been left with many questions. First, a little background: I've setup a new web server on FC8 x86_64 running Sun Java 1.6.0_05 and tomcat 5.5.26. I'm very familiar with

RE: Tomcat's scalability

2006-06-20 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
We had an application (with connection pooling and validation query) running on TC5.0.28 (now on TC5.5.17) connecting to MS SQL Server using the Microsoft JDBC drivers. When tomcat and the database were on the same side of the firewall performance was great (averaged < 20ms obtaining connection

Pooling SAXParsers

2005-10-14 Thread Hyatt, Gordon
A web-app I'm developing is expected to have many (possibly as many as 40-50) servlets, some will be updating a database others retrieving information from a database. All requests will be POSTs containing XML-formatted information. Some of the servlets will be heavily used (retrieving the co