mod_rewrite mod_proxy issues with apache and tomcat

[Pablo]

To anyone who can help,
     I currently am looking into alternative to mod_jk2 for apache and 
tomcat . Simply because of latency issues. One of the avenues that I am 
attempting is using mod_proxy and mod_rewrite.  I have followed the 
directions from this url

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/balancer-howto.html
the only difference between these directions and my implementation is 
that I have this

<Location /jsp-examples>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond "%{HTTP_COOKIE}"                  
"(^|;\s*)JSESSIONID=\w*\.(\w+)($|;)"
    RewriteRule "(.*)"                            
			"http://${SERVERS:%2|${SERVERS:ALL}}%{REQUEST_URI}"  [P,L]
    RewriteRule "^.*;jsessionid=\w*\.(\w+)($|;)"  
	"http://${SERVERS:$1|${SERVERS:ALL}}%{REQUEST_URI}"  [P,L]
    RewriteRule "(.*)"                           			 
"http://${SERVERS:ALL}%{REQUEST_URI}"; [P,L]
</Location>


instead of what the apache "how to"  implements
<Location /webapp>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond "%{HTTP_COOKIE}"                  
"(^|;\s*)jsessionid=\w*\.(\w+)($|;)"
    RewriteRule "(.*)"                            
			"http://${SERVERS:%2}%{REQUEST_URI}";  [P,L]
    RewriteRule "^.*;jsessionid=\w*\.(\w+)($|;)"  
	"http://${SERVERS:$1}%{REQUEST_URI}";  [P,L]
    RewriteRule "(.*)"                            
			"http://${SERVERS:ALL}%{REQUEST_URI}"; [P,L]
</Location>

That was just a little tip that I got from a website.
I can get to the urls just fine.  For instance if I go to one off my 
apps (notice ssl)

https://sdp-webprod.phila.k12.pa.us/masterlogin/
I get there with no problem .  Should I take away the trailing slash  
and hit enter I end up with the following in my url string

http://170.235.31.19:8080/masterlogin/
Any suggestions?
-Pablo
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