On 28/02/17 08:28, P O'Toole wrote: > Jose - >> When I try to make a POST demo request to an external server I get the >> message: >> "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid url requested, the demo >> requests should be hitting: http://localhost:8080/geoserver"; > I'm not sure whether this behavior has changed since previous versions of > Geoserver, so I'm not fit to answer your main question, but it should be > relatively easy to work around the problem by just forwarding the request via > e.g. PuTTy (on a Windows box) or via something like an `iptables` rule on > Linux/Unix, so the request goes to localhost first before being sent on to > another server. There's almost certainly a Java-only solution for doing the > same thing, if that's preferable. > - Patrick O'Toole
You are welcome to try, but I think we lock the request down to port 8080. It might be better to allow authenticated users, or perhaps only the administrator, to make requests outside http://localhost:8080/geoserver , but AFAIK all such requests are blocked. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
