> Perhaps I¹m naïve, but I was looking for a Tomcat provided ³getCurrentURL > ()² call, and assumed that nothing else could have that. :-) > > 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 > > > > > > > > On 2/11/16, 5:33 PM, "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > >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? > > > >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 > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > This Email was scanned by Sophos Anti Virus