Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat/src/share/org/apache/tomcat/modules/server PoolTcpConnector.java

2001-08-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: larryi 01/08/19 15:48:56 Modified:src/share/org/apache/tomcat/modules/server PoolTcpConnector.java Log: Add methods to allow detecting if Keystore and Keypass have been set. =)

Re: Tomcat startup script

2001-08-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Bojan Smojver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess most people would like to run Tomcat with server HotSpot if there is one. Can we do something like this (just to save most people a bit of configuration file editing, environment variable setting and the like): --- tomcat.sh Wed Jul 18

Re: Tomcat startup script

2001-08-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's a cool idea, IMHO. With the option to not run HotSpot, as pointed out. Craig and Larry/Costin, if I wanted to add a small one-liner to a doc file pointing this out. I hadn't thought of it myself, and I'm not positive that I would have

Re: Tomcat before Apache

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I keep my stance, if I see someone saying running (put your favourite service here) as root is safe, as you did, I'll flame him. Think TWO steps ahead, ALWAYS. Pier (security conscious) If I may ... First of all, I have not read the thread

Re: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (BTW, wouldn't it be wise to disable CGI execution in the default configuration? I don't know, after hearing people running Tomcat as root, I feel we really should!) +1

Re: Tomcat before Apache

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Dmitri Colebatch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Its a function thats defined in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions on a redhat (and mandrake) box. cheesr dim Ah ... cool. See, I still learn something new every day. Cheesr, buddy ;-) - Christopher

RE: Tomcat before Apache

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: point taken about the root thing.. I took back my words on that it safe to run as root (as quoted in my mail to Pier). Cool. As I said, I had't really read the thread. I wasn't singling you out, I just wanted to make a definitive comment for

Re: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Mark Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all. I'm new to the list. Sorry if someone has already brought this up, but couldn't the code provide some native methods for changing the uid of the process after binding to the network ports (if they want to start as root, binding to a port

RE: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Craig (who is amused by this, since Apache itself ships with CGI enabled) True enough, but the very point of JSP/Servlets is to obviate the need for CGI. I can't imagine that ANYONE would want to run CGI from Tomcat unless they had some legacy

Re: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Mark Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] What I was really wanting to evaluate was how you guys are managing sessions and how sessions information could possibly leak out via the filesystem, memory, or other ways. The application we are running runs in a hostile environment (remote

RE: CGI wrapper in Tomcat 4.0 b7

2001-08-18 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don't get me wrong, I'm ok with turning it off by default ... but it also needs someone to write a HOWTO document on how to turn it on and use it (to avoid endless questions on TOMCAT-USER about I thought you said Tomcat 4 supported CGI :-).

Re: FW: Tomcat before Apache

2001-08-17 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: FYI... The next one I see on any mailing list suggesting to start tomcat (any version) from the RC files without changing user id will understand what it means to be flamed... :-/ Yep, that's definitely a bad thing. [snip] I'm attaching a little C script that

Re: Tomcat before Apache

2001-08-17 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attaching a little C script that degradates the process to a specified user before execuing it. To compile do gcc -O2 safexec.c -o safexec and to run, (for example catalina) do: safexec username

TC4 SSL HOWTO

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
and fire off a TC 3.3 version in the morning. Love to the family, - Christopher Tomcat 4.0 Standalone - SSL Configuration Author: Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] QUICKSTART VERSION 1. Download JSSE 1.0.2 or later and make it an installed extension by copying the JAR

Re: TC4 SSL HOWTO

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Oops ... one other thing. If someone decides to commit this as-is, please add '(passwords: changeit)' to Step 3 of the QUICKSTART section. - Christopher

New SSL HOWTOs

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Author: Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contents === Section 1: QUICKSTART INSTRUCTIONS Instructions Section 2: SSL PRIMER TIPS Introduction to SSL SSL and Tomcat Certificates General Tips on Running SSL Section 3: CONFIGURATION

Re: New SSL HOWTOs

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
review the documents before committing them. Thanks for the help. Larry -Original Message- From: Christopher Cain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:12 PM To: Tomcat-Dev Subject: New SSL HOWTOs While creating the 3.3 version of my SSL HOWTO, I

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-4.0/webapps/tomcat-docs ssl-howto.xml build.xml index.xml project.xml

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: craigmcc01/08/16 13:21:54 [snip] I took a couple of minor liberties with the wording, but the rest was great. _Outstanding_ job on those liberties. The polishing you did in a few places is superb, and the final version is quite slick. Thanks! - Christopher

Re: Exception when hitting stop on slow servlet..

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Rob S. wrote: org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpConnection - java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer (maby this must be Pier?) HAHAHAHAHHAA that's too funny =) Connection reset by Pier lol LOL! I think someone should try and sneak in a source patch and change the exception to

Re: New SSL HOWTOs

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Jim Seach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks! I tried out your quickstart instructions with JDK 1.3 and Tomcat 3.2.3 on Windows 98 and it worked like a charm. The background and detail sections are well written and contain valuable information. Nice Job! Cool, thanks =) I can't really

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-4.0/jasper/src/share/org/apache/jasper/runtimeJspRuntimeLibrary.java PageContextImpl.java

2001-08-15 Thread Christopher Cain
:-) Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fix a spec-compliance bug in the implementation of PageContext.include(), which was not flushing the output stream even though this is explicitly required

Re: FW: catalina SSL

2001-08-15 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: OH SSL GURU! :) :) Do you have any clue (Reply to all so it'll go in tomcat-users too!) Don't worry, baby. The SSL doctor is in session ;-) Hi I'm getting used to Tomcat but not enough

[PATCH] SSL phase two

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Cain
The second phase of cleanup ended up being pretty undramatic. The Jikes problems I was seeing ended up being the fact that I have the SSL jars as installed extensions in the jre/lib/ext, so Jikes didn't have explicit access to them (which I would have known immediately if I had paid attention to

Velocity vs. XMLC

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Cain
Hey buddy. First of all, thanks for the nod on getting committer status. Nothing has happened yet, and I e-mailed Craig privately to get his thoughts on whether he favors the idea or not. I haven't heard back yet, but I know he's a busy man. I'm sure at some point that my PATCHES assult will

Re: Velocity vs. XMLC

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Cain
), if anyone feels like PRIVATELY (off-list) giving me their thoughts on Velocity vs. XMLC, feel free. Otherwise, feel free to just delete this renegade mail and go on about your day :-) - Christopher Christopher Cain wrote: Hey buddy. First of all, thanks for the nod on getting committer status

Re: [DOC] status

2001-08-14 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Rob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Answering questions on the mailing list until then will hopefully be less stressful =) LOL Less stressful ... not likely. Noble endeavor ... absolutely! ;-)

[PATCHES] SSL Sockets

2001-08-13 Thread Christopher Cain
The attached 5-pack is stage one of a three-step process working toward a fix for TC4 Bug #1400: proper handling of a keystore with multiple entries. This round is simply a cleanup of the exception handling/logging. The initial implementation had notes about FIXME, so I did :-) These may look

Re: [PATCHES] SSL Sockets

2001-08-13 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: Err... Warp doesn't (yet) support TLS sockets, but, since you changed the signature, I believe it needs to go in :) :) :) I figured that you are already answering enough mail on how to build Warp, so I best not change any signatures out from under you ;-) Well,

getKeystorePass() method?

2001-08-13 Thread Christopher Cain
I'm in the process of cleaning up the 4.0 SSLServerSocketFactory, and it occurs to me that I find the getKeystorePass method offensive. There should never be any reason to retrieve the keystore password once it's set, and it makes me uncomfortable having the method there. I'm not sure if it could

Re: Quick suggestion before the new beta tag

2001-08-10 Thread Christopher Cain
Hey Rob ... I think adding a quick note to RUNNING.txt would be definitely worthwhile. Win98 out of the box apparently gives you a blank config.sys, as I know for sure that I've never edited that file. - Christopher Rob S. wrote: BINGO! That was it. My config.sys didn't have anything in it

2 simple catalina questions

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
1. In server.xml, does an embeded listener take the same form as it does in web.xml: Connector ... listener listener-classmy.package.class/listener-class /listener /Connector 2. In the above example, should the custom jar containing my.package.class simply be placed into the

Re: Patching GTest

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: [pier@bubbles] ... Thanks for the visual ;-)

Quick suggestion before the new beta tag

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
To do my connector testing, I just installed the TC4 binary on a Win98 machine (don't laugh :-) Anyway, not being very DOS/Win knowledgable, it took me a few minutes to figure out a slight problem with the Windoze startup logic that was causing it to simply spit out bad command or filename.

Re: Vacation

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Remy Maucherat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I will be on vacation for two weeks starting this week-end. I will be back on the 26th. Where you headed, boss? Anywhere scandaleous?

Re: Quick suggestion before the new beta tag

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: By the TC4 binary do you mean the ZIP file or the new executable (.exe file) that includes an installer? The zip. The standard startup scripts work fine for me on my Win98 laptop ... the Catalina thing is ignored and Tomcat starts just fine in

Re: Quick suggestion before the new beta tag

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sheesh ... the only thing that catalina.bat puts on your CLASSPATH is %CATALINA_HOME%\bootstrap.jar and %JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar -- if Win98 can't even do that without a custom configuration setting, that's pretty lame. Actually, it wasn't the

Re: Quick suggestion before the new beta tag

2001-08-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't tested it myself, but the original reporter said that he suspected it *would* fail on NT. You can try it for yourself on Win2K with the following URL: http://localhost:8080/.../ If you get a directory listing of the

[PROPOSAL] Server Module Repository

2001-08-08 Thread Christopher Cain
I'm awaiting final word from Costin on the specific design of my prompter 3.3 Interceptor (I know it's a rather long e-mail and will require some thought, so I'm not complaining, just stating the status of things). I have already begun creating the 4.0 listener as well. In order to try and time

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecation of committers...

2001-08-08 Thread Christopher Cain
Kanan: You'll have to forgive Pier, he's a little grumpy this week (not that we don't love him anyway) =) What is being discussed is whether or not to remove inactive developers from the server where the source code resides. It doesn't affect the mailing lists in any way; they just need to

Re: Cert Lockdown - 3.3 Integration

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher Cain
Costin: You told me in the beginning that if I needed any additional callbacks to let you know. I think I do, and I'll explain why. If you think I'm on the wrong track, let me know. Any arbitrary number of http interceptors can be defined (I think, right?), each with the ability to bind to a

Re: Cert Lockdown - 3.3 Integration

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher Cain
P.S. What's the difference between engineInit() and engineStart()? They both say Called when the ContextManger is started, so when in the loading process does each get called? - Christopher

Re: Tomcat-Users mailing list...

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher Cain
I've become pretty knowledgable on the whole startup process over the past week or so, with some help from Costin and in examining the source. While I don't have the broad overall container knowledge that the core developers have, I'll try and help out with any of the startup/loading related

RE: Velocity and JSP speed testing...

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry man, I can't make a really good flame war when I agree with Jon. That's okay, buddy. You're back, and that's the important thing. We missed you is all ;-) - Christopher

Catalina Startup Hook

2001-08-06 Thread Christopher Cain
I need a quick jumpstart on how to hook my password prompter into the Catalina startup process. I assume that I shouldn't implement it as a Valve, as those have to do with the Request/Response chain. The Connector level in server.xml appears to be the appropriate level in the hierarchy, but it's

Re: Velocity and JSP speed testing...

2001-08-06 Thread Christopher Cain
Totally OT, bandwidth-wasting, irrelevant musings P.S. ... Where did that Paulo Gaspar cat go? That guy was always interesting in a flame war, especially with Jon involved. Man ... dude did NOT like Jon, but he sure loved Velocity. I wonder he went ... I really miss those days, back when we

Re: Catalina Startup Hook (actually, both camps should read this :-)

2001-08-06 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valves are designed for request processing, not component startup and shutdown. See below for an alternative suggestion. Yep, that's the general conslusion I came to in looking over the codebase. Cool, at least I know I can still RTFS and get

Command-Line Utility Attached - Feedback Requested

2001-08-05 Thread Christopher Cain
Attached is my generic utility which will allow for command-line interaction with the user during Tomcat startup. I've named it Feliner because I'm so witty. Even better, I've decided to name my proposed centralized External Resource Security module LitterBox, since it will be where Tomcat

Fwd: Re: Command-Line Utility Attached - Feedback Requested

2001-08-05 Thread Christopher Cain
: Command-Line Utility Attached - Feedback Requested To: Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm guessing you're probably after feedback on how it would fit into the tomcat archtecture, but I thought I'd offer this anyway. I changed the promptForInput to this: [snip] try

Re: Sources in Binary Distributions

2001-08-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Rob doesn't need me to defend him ... but I will anyway =) Arun Katkere wrote: OK, Rob, you are the voice of the majority (I probably missed a vote on this topic where people told you so) Craig initially proposed it early last week, and I was the first one to step up with vocal support for

Re: Sources in Binary Distributions

2001-08-02 Thread Christopher Cain
release, 3.3 is now in beta (although I believe that the milestones are still available), and AFAIK all of the 4.0 betas are still there. - Christopher -arun ps: One can always check out of CVS based on a release label, of course. -Original Message- From: Christopher Cain [mailto

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL (status?)

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Larry Isaacs wrote: Hi Christopher, I would be very interested in having this available for Tomcat 3.3. Since I'm not a security expert, I'll defer to those better informed to decide the appropriate solution. Would this keystore security solution plug into Tomcat 3.3 using an

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Not a problem ... it's just that I think you're being a little narrowly focused on the solution to *your* problem, and ignoring the bigger picture :-). I suppose that's fair to a certain extent. I do see cert protection as a little more critical than many of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL (status?)

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher, I just checked, and for 3.3 you don't need any change in the core or any other place in tomcat. Cool, I didn't think so. I figure that if I needed a core change for a command-line challenge at startup, I most probably did something wrong. =) All

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
jean-frederic clere wrote: Encrypting server certificates is not bad but it prevents starting the server automaticly. Storing this password is a nonsense. OpenSSL (for example) allows to modify this password or to have no password. If the server certificates is encrypted then we should

Cert Lockdown - 3.3 Integration

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Costin: Okay, I've looked over the whole Interceptor/Callback scheme, as well as the HTTP and SSL-related implementation classes, and I have a question. As I'm sure you know, it's all a little daunting for a newcomer like myself, so please bear with me =) I followed the whole startup routine

Re: Cert Lockdown - 3.3 Integration

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Christopher Cain wrote: I followed the whole startup routine from Tomcat.startTomcat() all the way through where the ContextManager calls the ServerXMLReader.addInterceptor(). That's where the whole hairy-chested XML parsing begins

[PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
First, just a quick follow-up on the previous thread. Using the keystore defaults for the TC4 SSL standalone config works as planned. Trying to override the keystoreFile and/or keystorePass defaults, unfortunately, does not work (different exceptions for each). It makes me extremely nervous to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: The only thing is that apache uses getpass(), so securing the password when you type it, as it's not read from stdin, but ioctling your tty device. Asking for your cert on stdin is not _that_ secure. Depends on your point of view, I suppose. If I'm sitting at the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
Jim Seach wrote: --- Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, it is currently a needless exposure, and certs are much more important than most other resources. If I paid good money for a real cert signed by a CA, I would especially have a comprehensive security

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
Jim Seach wrote: [snip] One of the possible custom solutons is to encrypt the other information with your public key, then use the private key to decrypt the other sensitive information. Since the info is signed with the public key, any developer could encrypt information that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
Jim Seach wrote: --- Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system would still have to have access to the private key, which would have to be protected with some kind of PBE scheme, in which case you are right back to specifying a password in the config files. Aside

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL (status?)

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
I forgot to mention that I plan on offering to port this initial keystore security solution (whatever it ends up being, although the Apache-style prompt is so far the only idea being floated) to the 3.3 if there is any interest in having it. I don't technically consider it a bug, so the 3.2

Re: [PROPOSAL] Standalone SSL

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Cain
Quoting Jim Seach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think we're in agreement. The initial authentication problem needs to be resolved before we can talk about leveraging it to solve the other problems. I like your proposal of an optional prompt solution for this. Cool. This is an area of interest

Re: [DOC] TC4 Status

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Cain
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: What's the top priority for the Administrators section? IMHO, documenting the various settings in server.xml is critical. +1000 I spent several hours last night attempting to get SSL working on TC4m6 standalone, with no success. I did everything the

Re: [DOC] TC4 Status

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Cain
Christopher Cain wrote: [snip] P.S. Quick question: The 3 JSSE libraries need to live in $TCHOME/server/lib, yes? Okay, I guess as long as I'm asking, can someone please post the exact syntax for the second (SSL) Connector in server.xml (keystoreName keystorePass are attributes

Standalone SSL Problem (was: Re: [DOC] TC4 Status)

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Cain
(Two different mails snipped and referenced below :-) Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Yes, that should be conf/server/lib. Alternatively (and the way I run it), you can put these three JAR files in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext. A few things here. First, it is unnecessary, then, to have the JSSE jars

Re: Standalone SSL Problem (was: Re: [DOC] TC4 Status)

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Cain
Hot damn. Taking the classes out of the TC hierarchy got rid of that No Such Algorithm business. Thanks Kevin! Is that more-or-less expected behavior, or should I log it into bugzilla so that it gets tracked as a bug? I'd be happy to look into it further, although with my rather limited exposure

Re: Standalone SSL Problem (was: Re: [DOC] TC4 Status)

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Cain
Remy Maucherat wrote: Quoting Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hot damn. Taking the classes out of the TC hierarchy got rid of that No Such Algorithm business. Thanks Kevin! Is that more-or-less expected behavior, or should I log it into bugzilla so that it gets tracked

Site Nitpick

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher Cain
Just a heads-up that the Tomcat site's index.html contains the following sentence: Version 3.3 is currently under development and the beta process is expected to begin shortly. Someone with commit access should probably update that so that users know the beta cycle has begun. - Christopher

Re: [DOC] TC4 xdocs (tangent)

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher Cain
Since there is an active discussion about the Tomcat site itself, implying that someone may be about to do a little work on it, I have a simple suggestion. It would be a nice convenience if there were a new section on the download page, maybe under a separate one of those grayish-blue heading

Re: [DOC] TC4 xdocs (tangent)

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher Cain
Christopher Cain wrote: [snip] ... someone should really fix the Catalina Configuration page so that either the background is not black or the links are white or something. I'll even tell you the fix. categories.html: bgcolor=sky blue -- bgcolor=skyblue ;-)

Re: Sources in Binary Distributions

2001-07-27 Thread Christopher Cain
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: [snip] For Tomcat 4, what do folks think of omitting the sources from the binary distribution? This would knock the size of the binary distributions down by around 2 megabytes (which I'm sure people would also appreciate). FWIW, I completely agree. I actually

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
JULIEN,TIMOTHY (HP-NewJersey,ex2) wrote: Over in HP middleware, we're not to happy with this development either our JSP implementation will suffer for the same reasons Jasper will We can work with an external compiler, but for speed, we much prefer sun.tool.javac.Main. Just a

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: Time to drop Javac and just use Jikes... LOL! I hadn't even read this one when I (just now) asked my why not just go with Jikes question. I've started noticing that Jon and I think alot alike, from HTML-formatted e-mail to documention approaches to JSP to compiler

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: Jikes works fine. The issue is that Jikes is a C++ binary and isn't ported to every platform. Oh yeah ... =) It also makes installation/distribution issues a bit more tricky than simply calling a Java class file... Yep. I figured the issue was that it would require

Re: John Gardner is out of the office.

2001-07-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: John Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 19/07/2001 and will not return until 13/08/2001. Any general support queries should be emailed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infoshop queries should be emailed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-connectors/webapp/javaWarpConnection.java

2001-07-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: FUCK! Why does MacOS/X crashes right in the middle of a commit? (Comment on Apple being able to find it with both hands and a flashlight withheld ;-)

Re: HTML filtering on tomcat-dev

2001-07-17 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: on 7/16/01 5:44 PM, Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to leaving my inbox blissfully free of such abominations, I have a feeling it will also reduce the amount of user questions on the dev list. I've noticed that a good percentage of the HTML

Re: New Tomcat 4 installer nightly

2001-07-17 Thread Christopher Cain
Kevin Jones wrote: - The JAVA_HOME env variable is no longer needed (instead, it looks in the registry to get the JDK path). The problem with this is that when you install the JDK you end up with two JREs. So Java developers may have JAVA_HOME pointed at c:\jdk1.3.1 (say) and the

Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMNSHO, that kernel flag workaround is a joke. I almost fell out of my chair with laughter when I first read that proposed solution on the Sun forums. Hey, our JDK makes some faulty assumptions about memory

Re: FW: HTML filtering on tomcat-dev

2001-07-16 Thread Christopher Cain
Sweet. Be sure to CC me on your wedding announcement. In addition to leaving my inbox blissfully free of such abominations, I have a feeling it will also reduce the amount of user questions on the dev list. I've noticed that a good percentage of the HTML-formatted posts, the vast majority of

Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
GOMEZ Henri wrote: Putting little notes about things like the JDK 1.3.1 linux issue are VERY useful. I hate it when M$ have docs that don't mention things such as none of your data is encrypted, by the way JDK 1.3.1 problems with recent glibc could be fixed by adding : export

OT - HTML dev-list filter?

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
I'm not familiar with list managing software myself, so I'll ask some of you who are. Is there any decent way of bouncing HTML-formatted messages from the lists (or at least this one)? Another OSS project I am involved in bounces multipart messages on its user list, which has the side-effect of

Re: What if your message doesn't make to this list...

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: I got pretty upset with a couple of guys whose messages along the lines of fix my servlet, and who asked me WHY I rejected those posts... [snip] I have a quick question, more out of idle curiosity than anything else. I assume that only posts from non-subscribers are

Re: What if your message doesn't make to this list...

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: on 7/13/01 12:57 PM, Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: I got pretty upset with a couple of guys whose messages along the lines of fix my servlet, and who asked me WHY I rejected those posts... [snip] I have a quick

Re: Suggestions (was Re: hello everyone (regarding documentation))

2001-07-10 Thread Christopher Cain
Alex Fernández wrote: Hi Hiten! hiten pandya wrote: i am planning to start my own documentation project for Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0. The different thing about this project is that, i am going to port all of the tomcat documentation to XML Docbook format. Not speaking officially, I'm

Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-10 Thread Christopher Cain
Rob S. wrote: [snip] First off, I think we should have an ultra-quick install guide. If you're like a lot of geeks, you know your stuff. You need to know a quick few steps, a quick 2-3 gotchas, and BAM that's it. I want to make sure the quick-and-dirty impatient install is available to

Re: Vote on oustanding doc issues?

2001-07-09 Thread Christopher Cain
I was out of town for the holiday, so I have just read almost all of this ex post facto. It looks like there are quite a few people, myself included, willing to devote an appreciable amount of time to an informal new group of doc wrangers. When I originally jumped into this thread early on, I had

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project : WAS:[TomcatDocu mentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: on 7/2/01 6:04 PM, Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no interest in Anakia, and quite frankly, as has been pointed out very astutely by Costin, I have no interest in bothering with XML for the purposes of documentation. I will produce HTML docs

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project : WAS:[TomcatDocumentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
arguments over and over. Yes, I know you feel [21], but [17-19,28]. It would be so much quicker... Christopher Cain wrote: being bothered with this thread are both completely irrelevant, Ace. I have no interest in Anakia, and quite frankly, as has been pointed out very astutely

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project:WAS:[TomcatDocumentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: [snip] Most of this was under the assumption that there would be no one volunteer to dedicate additional time and energy in a little cabal of people to take the lead on organizing and standardizing Tomcat documention. Since I have now gone from, Bah! Don't pester me

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project :WAS:[TomcatDocu mentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: on 7/3/01 11:50 AM, Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more (most) people have to try and learn an extensive DTD or templating system, the less likely they are to bother. I agree. That is why I came up with Anakia. It is brain dead simple to use

Re: FORM-based authentication idea

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Andy Armstrong wrote: Michael Jennings wrote: Hi everyone, I just wanted to bounce an idea off of everyone. In tomcat, when one specifies form-based authentication you have to tell tomcat which page is the login page. This is done via the context's web.xml file by setting the

Re: FORM-based authentication idea

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Christopher Cain wrote: My main objection would be that it is adding non-spec features, which means that any apps written under Tomcat would not cleanly port to other spec-compliant servlet containers. This, of course, should read: Any apps written under Tomcat to levarage this feature

Taglibs Article

2001-05-25 Thread Christopher Cain
Jakarta Taglibs was one of the featured articles in the JDC Newsletter this morning. Here is the address for those of you not subscribed to it: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/JakartaTaglibs/ I'm guessing that you are now swinging your browser to that

Re: submitting a patch

2001-05-17 Thread Christopher Cain
I can hear it coming, so let me try and head it off. Having just recently gone through this same kind of thing on a different (non-Apache) dev list, I can sympathize with this question and applaud it's honesty. So please try and spare the flames. In answer to your question, Ryan, Tomcat accepts

Re: database access problem

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Asim: This is not the appropriate list for a JDBC question. This list is for Tomcat-related questions. However, in answer to your question ... I am surprised that this code works even in Access. The SQL you are using actually should not return any rows at all. It is an INSERT operation, not a

[PATCH] Install instructions using Ant 1.3

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Cain
The attached adds building instructions to the README file for the new Ant 1.3 release (and fixes a minor typo). Unfortunately, I do not currently have access to a Win box. If someone could please verify the steps under Windows, that would probably be good. I doubt there are any noteworthy

Re: REPOST : extracting jsp filename from generated class

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Shahed Ali wrote: Hi all, Sorry for this repost. From within a jsp page, I need to know the name of the jsp page. If I do a %=this.getClass()%, I get a string which represents the class name of the generated servlet. Parse it off of the getRequestURI() method. Regards, Christopher

Re: [Tomcat 4.0] Proposed Change in Build Scripts

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
GOMEZ Henri wrote: And +1 for TC 3.x branch. Yes, please. =) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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