Tomcat 8.0.38 In my Eclipse development environment when particular servlet requests are made I want to simulate going through Shibboleth prior to Tomcat handling the request. I wanted to see if this will work.
In Eclipse within each dynamic web application I would add a valve to the context.xml file. The valve would: 1) Check the URL request. 2) If the URL string matches a list then it will add particular name value pairs to the request. Example of a possible valve: <Valve className="my.valves.ShibbolethSimulationValve" /> 1) Can a valve actually identify a particular URL path? 2) Can a valve add an attribute to the request prior to the servlet getting the request? 3) If item #1 and #2 will work does anyone have some base code for a value that would get me started down the correct path? Thanks for all of your help. Lance Campbell Web Services University of Illinois
