On 13/10/2016 16:04, Campbell, Lance wrote: > 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?
Yes. Valves have access to Tomcat's internal request and response objects. > 2) Can a valve add an attribute to the request prior to the servlet > getting the request? Yes. > 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? Have a look in the org.apache.catalina.valves package. SemaphoreValve and CrawlerSessionManagerValve should give you an idea. Note that you can also do all of the above with a Filter that isn't Tomcat specific and would, therefore, be usable with other containers as well. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
