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. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org