RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-10 Thread Bárbara Vieira
-Original Message- From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2008 18:35 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? In my CISSP training, we covered the possiblity of putting a web server in between two firewalls. The outer one

RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-10 Thread Bárbara Vieira
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Janeiro de 2008 14:59 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Bárbara Vieira wrote: David, imagine that you are developing a web application to provide services like internet banking. What network architecture would you

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-10 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Bárbara Vieira wrote: David, imagine that you are developing a web application to provide services like internet banking. What network architecture would you propose? How will you implement a DMZ? Probably you put a firewall between Web Server and Database Server!! Or not? Am I right that

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-10 Thread Johnny Kewl
Subject: RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Alan and Johnny, I agree with Alan. I'm using the same scheme to save passwords in database, and SSL too. But, Johnny's answer help me understand some things. Johnny, when you say: So in those organization Tomcat is probably behind the second internal

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-10 Thread Johnny Kewl
PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:27 PM Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Hi Barbara, Sorry still on holiday, not reading email every day... Read this articlae by one of the tomcat gurus... nice and academic, has calcs

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Gainty
superior multi-threading can manage multiple resources much more effectively.. Anyone else? M-- - Original Message - From: Alan Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat

RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-09 Thread Bárbara Vieira
] Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2008 14:10 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? One reason for doing this, is again not whether IIS or APACHE is better although APACHE on linux in the hands of a guru is very good, its because Tomcat carries clear text

RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-09 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Apache is considerably lighter on its feet to serve static pages and images quicker than TC While that was true several years ago, the current versions of Tomcat achieve virtually identical

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-09 Thread David Smith
that? Thanks, Regards, Bárbara Vieira -Original Message- From: Alan Chaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2008 14:10 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? One reason for doing this, is again not whether IIS or APACHE

Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Bárbara Vieira
Hi there! I’m making a research about internet banking and e-commerce good practices to design a secure system. I have an application based on servlets running in a Tomcat Server. My application provides secure authentication based in both methods: SSL mutual authentication and form

RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Asides this, while tomcat and friends (servlet containers) are made to serve up, well, J2EE web tier applications, web servers like apache2, lighttpd, ... are usually better at serving static content (images, static css files, html documents that

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Kristian Rink
Bárbara, Am Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:13:34 - schrieb Bárbara Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Why that’s happen? Why we have a Web Server over another Web Server, if the low-level Web Server is capable to do everything alone? To give you an example: We do use a set of tomcat machines (four

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Diego
Review the list archives for the disproof of this myth. Tomcat 5.0 and above are quite capable of serving static content, efficiently enough that you'll saturate your network connection long before you saturate disk, memory or CPU. So unless you have one of the situations like those described by

RE: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Bárbara Vieira
de Janeiro de 2008 12:06 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Review the list archives for the disproof of this myth. Tomcat 5.0 and above are quite capable of serving static content, efficiently enough that you'll saturate your network connection long before you

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Kristian Rink
Bárbara, Am Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:53:11 - schrieb Bárbara Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understand your perspective. But, my question is about security. Why systems banks use an IIS Server instead of an Apache Server over a Tomcat Server(or some servlet container) [...] For what I have seen

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Bárbara Vieira wrote: I understand your perspective. But, my question is about security. Why systems banks use an IIS Server instead of an Apache Server over a Tomcat Server(or some servlet container), if that systems authenticate the client using servlets technology or some technology supplied

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:17:38PM +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: There's no simple answer. Running apache in front of tomcat has advantages: * load balancing / failover * static content handling (I know, tomcat behaves better and better, but some people want to have apache handle

Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat?

2008-01-08 Thread Johnny Kewl
PROTECTED] To: 'Tomcat Users List' users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:13 PM Subject: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Hi there! I'm making a research about internet banking and e-commerce good practices to design a secure system. I have an application based on servlets