-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Colin,
On 6/14/14, 10:05 AM, Colin Ingarfield wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 >> >> James, >> >> On 6/13/14, 4:11 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >>> When this thread first came up, I tried one obvious approach: >>> creating a symbolic link in the file system, mapping a new >>> directory name into an existing context's directory. >>> >>> It didn't work. >> >> If it did work, what you'd end up with is double-deployment, >> which is something the OP wanted to avoid. >> >> If the lb is the problem, the solution is to make the canonical >> "name" of the application one that does not include an >> underscore. Then, use something like url-rewrite (or, even >> better, do it at the lb) to *redirect* users permanently from the >> "old" URL space to the new URL space. >> >> Or, just get a load-balancer that doesn't fall-over when you >> have underscores in your URLs. That's just plain bad software. >> :( >> >> - -chris > > I couldn't agree more re "bad software" and I'll go ahead and name > names. It's an Amazon "elastic load balancer". It's configured > to provide session affinity using the JSESSIONID cookie. When > tomcat sets the JSESSIONID it uses "path=/the_context". The ELB > then sets its AWSELB cookie with "path=/the%5Fcontext". I don't > know if that's valid per the cookie "spec", but that doesn't matter > b/c neither Firefox nor Chrome will return the AWSELB cookie w/ the > underscore encoded like that. This of course breaks the session > affinity causing all sorts of annoying problems. > > I may open an issue w/ Amazon about it, but there is no telling > when (if) they'd bother to fix it. So I'm pursing other options as > well. Interesting. I've never used ELB's sticky-session features. It's good to know there is a potential problem. Do you have a reference to a publicly-accessible bug report? I'd like to read it if possible. Thanks, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJToFR7AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYIccQAIFqbG2gxlbUxPD5QQ/RXcix YjADpZ4+RshfK2d34xdYD9En1nupU1u1cUz2UEvNc/ua3AaxbPak3fux7Nw1FFLO DV+BGppHg2+cG741W8MpnGIOCxkvqU7NwpIjD5VIdHrfT5C/m2XVxXKwLrQDHAaN Ve8QSqZ+RoNLJmXuBMkqyMWFJ6xCAOmzNgsVHSXoCKPoPElWnBayi3+HRr1iYCtF i7l8a10zgAJWYTbtB5Jh/gXP09S6ZoBW59bmQojUP9Wh6YtDOYnRiSUulUY7FI1c twZejEt2lM4KvjegsW9xS7z79jKVIPp3orO/lX7wmXs5kXKwV856lTEH8NkYb/qY 0ETZLFQ3NVDFdF+X+SkL7FaN56Jiok6WmFZ4/MiFpYXaQ41TcT0soNrgccFhoLUo fHj554GIP8Lwnuczyp3u5nRZzPnfZt6AvYz7S8eDzeKe4xnanX7gUld2nTnrOCAt jhDK3i98h8KTk0BXAb66CWN+qg+wStV6rdhnsgErbb+1sklValBVpyne+NOH4AnV kUQgHkTMX+NT77CMCyw7Yphq0iHIMSM2Ntp4Jt1hlkfyMr9/0Mx9ri1Au7H8eVqL /IcND588/shMqlTcfthz8N4La0fEcGrHNCWXvis6+hJXvaeebOcs/zS2WTMxKdLQ iWANIz0YBecweiCaMRql =yCVC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
