Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David, On 1/19/17 12:21 PM, David P. Caldwell wrote: > 1. The backend server serves files via HTTPS. (I control this, and > may switch it to HTTP; see below.) Ok. > 2. The proxy server has an HTTPS connector like this (but under my > initial

Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread David P. Caldwell
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Daniel Savard wrote: > 2017-01-19 12:21 GMT-05:00 David P. Caldwell > : > >> Chris, >> >> Good questions, I'll try to clarify. >> >> 1. The backend server serves files via HTTPS. (I control this, and may >>

Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread Daniel Savard
2017-01-19 12:21 GMT-05:00 David P. Caldwell : > Chris, > > Good questions, I'll try to clarify. > > 1. The backend server serves files via HTTPS. (I control this, and may > switch it to HTTP; see below.) > > 2. The proxy server has an HTTPS connector like this

Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread David P. Caldwell
Chris, Good questions, I'll try to clarify. 1. The backend server serves files via HTTPS. (I control this, and may switch it to HTTP; see below.) 2. The proxy server has an HTTPS connector like this (but under my initial solution I wasn't thinking I should use it). var _https = new

Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David, On 1/19/17 10:38 AM, David P. Caldwell wrote: > I'm trying to forward HTTPS requests through a Tomcat HTTP (or > HTTPS) server to a backend HTTPS server. > > The requests are initiated by a Java HTTP client > (java.net.URLConnection-based).

Re: Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread David P. Caldwell
One clarification: when I wrote: "is there something configurable that will allow those requests to be forwarded rather than rejected?" ... what I really meant was, is there a way for the request to reach my servlet (which handles all requests), basically. I already have a server-side

Can Tomcat act as an HTTPS proxy?

2017-01-19 Thread David P. Caldwell
I'm trying to forward HTTPS requests through a Tomcat HTTP (or HTTPS) server to a backend HTTPS server. The requests are initiated by a Java HTTP client (java.net.URLConnection-based). So I have: backend HTTPS server (which works) Tomcat server running HTTP and HTTPS connectors Java