Replying to my own question.
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----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com>
> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:40 PM
> Subject: Connector warning message with native libraries
>
> Folks:
>
> I'm seeing a warning in my logs when I use request.secret for the AJP
> connector when I load the APR native libraries. The warning is:
>
> WARNING: [SetAllPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Connector}
> Setting property 'request.secret' to 'somesillypassword' did
> not find a
> matching property.
>
> I'm running a three node Tomcat cluster for testing with the following
> configuraiton:
>
> OS: Fedora 15 32 bit
> JVM: java version "1.6.0_31"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
> Tomcat: 6.0.35
> Native: 1.1.22
> APR: apr-util-devel-1.3.12-1.fc15.i686 (Fedora RPM)
> SSL: openssl-devel-1.0.0g-1.fc15.i686 (Fedora RPM)
>
> Here's the snippet from my server.xml.
>
> <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8019 -->
> <Connector port="8019" protocol="AJP/1.3"
> redirectPort="8453"
> request.secret="somesillypassword"
> connectionTimeout="600000"
> URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
>
============= COMMENT ================
It helps to read the fine javadoc for org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol.
In there you will find a protected string called requiredSecret (much like
Tomcat 7.x).
Indeed, changing request.secret to requiredSecret when loading the native
libraries eliminates the warning.
However, a cursory glance at the online documentation didn't reveal any mention
of this requirement for the AjpAprProtocol. It's not a problem for Tomcat 7.x
obviously since this is the same attribute for both AprProtocol and
AjpAprProtocol.
However, for Tomcat 6 this presents an issue.
So a note when loading the native libraries, using AjpAprProtocol, and Tomcat 6
with the "secret" attribute:
Change request.secret="somesillypassword" on the AJP/1.3 connector definition
to requiredSecret="somesillypassword".
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Sorry for the bandwidth.
. . . . just my two cents.
/mde/
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