I apologize for posting in the dev group, but postings to the user group have not shed any light on my problem, and I getting desperate! Here is my problem: -------------------------------------------------- My environment: Solaris 8 (fully patched) jdk 1.3.1, with hotspot enabled tomcat 3.2.2 apache 1.3.19 The problem: I have a servlet that opens a URL connection to the servlet container. So if I call http://blah/blinky, where blinky is my servlet, it is possible under some situations for this servlet to open a URL such as http://blah/lumpy, where lumpy is some other servlet. This is part of a largish site publishing framework I built on top of JServ. Now, things worked great with JServ, but I am having a devil of a time getting this to work in Tomcat. Observations: When the blinky servlet opens a URL to the same tomcat instance, the log entries for mod_jk go as far as making the call to marshal stuff before calling tomcat - as seen by the mod_jk.log entry: [jk_ajp13.c (480)]: ajp13_marshal_into_msgb - Done At this point, nothing happens. I *should* be seeing entries for the jk_open_socket function, but they never appear. What I have tried: - I have disabled the default 8080 listener, thinking it may be interfering. No luck - I changed the cachesize of the ajp12 and ajp13 workers to 8 from the default of 1. No luck - I added the "min_spare_threads" parameter to the entries for the ajp12 and ajp13 connectors in server.xml No luck - switched between tomcat 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 *and* 4.0b5 No luck - upgraded apache to 1.3.19 No luck - switched between jdk1.2.2 and jdk1.3.1 No Luck - switched between solaris and win2k No luck - Torn my hair out from the roots No luck I am at my wits end. Any help will be gratefully accepted. TIA, naeem