That's exactly what I was hoping for, thanks David (and others who have 
posted), you're a gent. 

I thought it might be something like that but I couldn't find any conclusive 
evidence about handling secure ports...

R.

On 17 Nov 2009, at 12:39, David Smith wrote:

> Your tomcat has to listen on 443 to remove the port number from the URL.  
> This is not a tomcat issue, but rather the browser's expectation.
> 
> -- David
> 
> 
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Robert Denison <r...@blim.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've set up my tomcat server to serve http requests on port 8080 and https 
>> on port 8443. My firewall forwards requests for 80 to 8080 and 8443 to 8443.
>> 
>> It works fine but as it stands https requests have the form 
>> https://mydomain.com:8443. I would like to set it up so like most secure 
>> internet sites there is no port number in the URL even when using https. Can 
>> anyone point me in the right direction or at some documentation that will 
>> help?
>> 
>> Cheers for any help,
>> 
>> R.
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