> Perhaps I¹m naïve, but I was looking for a Tomcat provided
³getCurrentURL
> ()² call, and assumed that nothing else could have that. :-)
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> Thank you for the SecurityManager suggestion, I hadn¹t thought about
that.
> I¹ll look in to how much of a pain that is.
You can rebuild the url with several methods of HttpServletRequest like:
- getScheme()
- getServerPort()
- getContextPath()
- getServletPath()
- getPathInfo()
To figure out the host name you can use the Host header:
getHeader("Host")
Regards,
Christoph
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> On 2/11/16, 5:33 PM, "Mark Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >On 11/02/2016 22:56, Dougherty, Gregory T., M.S. wrote:
> >> I would like to have a jar file in tomcat/lib that can be called from
> >>any of the running web apps. I need for the code in the jar to behave
> >>differently depending on which web app called it. It is not in this
> >>case possible for the code to ³trust² the caller to tell it the URL of
> >>the caller.
> >>
> >> Is it possible for that code to independently determine the URL of
the
> >>caller?
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> >If you can't trust the caller to tell you the URL, you can't trust that
> >the caller isn't going to tinker with whatever mechanism you do use to
> >determine the URL.
> >
> >You'd have a better chance of doing this if you ran under a
> >SecurityManager but unless you write an application from the start with
> >the intention of running it under a SecurityManager it is usually a lot
> >of additional effort to update the app so it runs correctly.
> >
> >Mark
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