McHugh, Jason wrote: > I want to run straight tomcat as a proxy server. (I understand that there > are a variety of other applications out there that may perform better and > offer more features. I also understand that I could front tomcat with apache > and do some sort of rewriting solution. I'd rather not do any of these; I > just want to use plain tomcat. :) ) > > I've written a servlet and overridden the commonly used default servlet > 'org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet' with my own. All of this is > working fine. > > The problem occurs when I run my server as a proxy server. Web browsers will > make the request for "http://www.google.com"; look something like this: > > GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1 > Accept: */* > Accept-Language: en-us > Host: www.google.com > > (there are other parts to it, but really this is all that matters.) My > tomcat responds with > > HTTP/1 1 400 No Host matches server name www.google.com > Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:10:26 GMT > Connection: close > > Because, of course, my server host name is not www.google.com. > > I've read the documentation and a good deal of the source code and now > understand that org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine has associated with > it a set of Hosts each which is configured with one or more host names > (usually one but org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost supports 'host name > aliases'). If the Engine cannot find a host matching the "Host" http header > then it will respond back with the result above. (I guess it is a bit more > complicated than this since my traces through the code show other classes, > like host-manager, getting in the mix.) > > I expected that Tomcat could accomplish what I am trying to do purely with > configuration but after reading through the documentation, FAQs, and much of > the catalina code, I can't find the solution. (The one solution that I have > come up with, involving subclassing the org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost > class and overriding the 'findChild' method, feels hacky and like I said -- I > thought that I should be able to do what I want using config only.) > > To summarize - I would like to configure my tomcat instance to call my > servlet independent of the URL or http "host" header which tomcat receives. > Does anyone know how to do this?
Do you have a default host configured? <Engine defaultHost="proxyProcessorHost"... http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/engine.html Pid > Thanks. > > Jason McHugh > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
