https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47242
--- Comment #4 from Ken Van Camp <ken.vanc...@andesaservices.com> 2010-02-18 21:37:38 UTC --- I have not heard any updates, but I'll give you a little more detail on my use case: It is frequently useful to be able to test the health of a web server by making individual requests to it, for instance if receiving reports of server being unreachable. We may also wish to institute automated health checks from a script or third-party software, and it is easy to do both over an HTTP connection because many tools exist. Over AJP, however, this is not generally feasible. My Tomcat web server is not on the Internet - it sits behind an IIS proxy server. Users connect to the IIS proxy over HTTPS, and the proxy communicates to my Tomcat server over AJP. When I get reports that my web server is unreachable via the proxy over HTTPS, my next step is to hit my Tomcat server over HTTP and verify that's working. If Tomcat is working properly over HTTP, but the proxy is not responding over HTTPS, there are still a number of possible causes, including the proxy server itself, network connectivity between the proxy and Tomcat, and the AJP connections on Tomcat. I currently have no way to directly test Tomcat over AJP - no simple tools exist that I know of. There are many possible ways to fill this need - one way I've found useful, and fairly reusable, in the HTTP world is a simple command line tool like wget, which is a standard command-line utility in Linux. It allows me to issue a simple GET request from the command line, or a script, which may be used to check the health of my web server, and may be automated. Wget has a large number of command line options, but all of my use cases could be satisfied with probably just one of them: a timeout option so the request doesn't hang there forever if the server is unresponsive. The only other parameter I need to give this wget-like AJP utility is the URL I'd like to hit on Tomcat. Please let me know if you need any further clarification. Thanks. Ken -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
