How to redirect a web page from Tomcat to your browser?
This question's probably been asked a hundred times but it's new to me and I haven't found anything directly helpful in my newbieness. I have a servlet running on Tomcat on a remote machine. The application is a web site. What I want to do is have some links on the index page that go to a secure server out in The Great Cloud Of The Intertubes. Now I can't just put plain html links on the index page, because then if you click on them, naturally your browser will go to the secure server to try and get pages from it. The way the secure server is set up, it looks at the requesting IP address and if you're not on the invite list, then you don't get in. The remote machine with the Tomcat server on it has an approved IP address, so the secure server will talk it, just not to me here as my IP is different. So, question is, how do I set up a mechanism so that you click on a link on the index page for the URL you want, Tomcat takes this and sends the request to the secure server, the secure server sends the page(s) back to Tomcat and then Tomcat throws it at your browser? Thanks for any help on this. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-redirect-a-web-page-from-Tomcat-to-your-browser--tp19610550p19610550.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to redirect a web page from Tomcat to your browser?
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:35 AM, DeanM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, question is, how do I set up a mechanism so that you click on a link on the index page for the URL you want, Tomcat takes this and sends the request to the secure server, the secure server sends the page(s) back to Tomcat and then Tomcat throws it at your browser? You need to write (or find) a proxy/reverse-proxy servlet. Alternatively, you could use Apache httpd that purpose. More moving parts, but possibly less work. :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to redirect a web page from Tomcat to your browser?
You need to write (or find) a proxy/reverse-proxy servlet. Alternatively, you could use Apache httpd that purpose. More moving parts, but possibly less work. :-) So you mean set up Apache and have Tomcat plug in to it? In other words, make Apache the front end my browser talks to, instead of using Tomcat on its own. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-redirect-a-web-page-from-Tomcat-to-your-browser--tp19610550p19610777.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to redirect a web page from Tomcat to your browser?
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, DeanM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to write (or find) a proxy/reverse-proxy servlet. Alternatively, you could use Apache httpd that purpose. More moving parts, but possibly less work. :-) So you mean set up Apache and have Tomcat plug in to it? In other words, make Apache the front end my browser talks to, instead of using Tomcat on its own. Not exactly. The Apache proxy would be independent of Tomcat. Your link in the servlet would simply link to the local, proxied address served by Apache. See ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse in the Apache docs. -- Jeff - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to redirect a web page from Tomcat to your browser?
jlar310 wrote: Not exactly. The Apache proxy would be independent of Tomcat. Your link in the servlet would simply link to the local, proxied address served by Apache. See ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse in the Apache docs. OK thanks I'll go and have a read. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-redirect-a-web-page-from-Tomcat-to-your-browser--tp19610550p19610933.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
