> > 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")
>
Oh, now I see there have been much more messages on this thread. Sorry for
not reading it first.
Regards,
Christoph
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/11/16, 5:33 PM, "Mark Thomas" <[email protected]> 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
> > >
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