Embedded example

Hi Can someone tell me where to find an example with tomcat 5.5 embedded? It seems there is nothing... Or even better: Is there a way to use the http(s) connector without tomcat? I want to direct ALL requests to ONE pure servlet and there do not need most parts of tomcat. Regards, Steffen

Threads / Tomcat Lite

Hi 1. Question I need to store some information which differs for each request. My problem: I need it at a place where I have no access to the request, the response or the session. Now, I can also do it using ThreadLocal variables, but these take time. I would prefer to use a custom Thread

AW: Can't do log rotation on windows

Hi I've got tomcat 4 running on a win2003 server and it spits it's log messages to a catalina.out file. Once a day I want to rotate the log - copy it, zip up the copy and truncate the original. I do this on linux with a simple shell script. Tomcat is running during all of this and has its mitts

AW: HTMLArea and SpellCheck plugin

See http://www.fckeditor.net/ -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: David Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 19:15 An: Tomcat Users List Betreff: Re: HTMLArea and SpellCheck plugin Anybody successfully implemented a tomcat webapp that uses the

AW: HTTPS: more than one certificate

Hi Just because I'm interested: If I had more than one certificate in my keystore, which certificate would be used by tomcat for https? Is there a way to specify which certificate to use? I don't know. But you can use different keystores: Use the following attributes for CoyoteConnector:

AW: AW: certificate question for 2 domains pointing to same website

Hi Wait a second...Tomcat will determine which cert to send down based upon the IP address that the browser went to? I guess that makes sense...so does the web server never get to see what domain the browser was looking up to come to the site, or is that info available? That info is

AW: certificate question for 2 domains pointing to same website

Hi If we do this and get that new certificate into the keystore used by our Tomcat 4, will everything be fine, or will Tomcat present 2 certificates to users accessing the site? I mean, will it correctly present the certificate for the old domain to the user when they go to the old

AW: Tomcat belches out megabytes of white space during log rotation

Hi I have this weird problem with an instance of tomcat 4.1.30 running on Windows Server 2003. Tomcat output (log messages) is directed into CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out. Every 4 hours a little log rotation script runs while tomcat is active. It zips catalina.out into an archived logs

AW: Meaning of threads

Hi the number of threads will depend on the size of your machine, but to support many concurrent users, you will want to turn off keep alive connections, as these will have the opposite effect. Wouldn't it make more sense to enable keep alive connections and increase the thread count - if

AW: Virtual Hosts and SSL

Hi I can't find anything specific to my question in the FAQs but I'm trying to set up a tomcat server with virtual hosts using https. I have two ips, each with its own SSL cert as I understand is necessary for https. What I want is to have each ip use port 443 with its own document tree

AW: Too many BackGround Java Threads

Hi When i do a check on the back ground threads i see many jvm threads running .. 27288 pts/0S 0:34 /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_06/bin/java -Xms700m -Xmx800m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC - 27289 pts/0S 0:01 /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_06/bin/java -Xms700m -Xmx800m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -

Analysing dead threads

Hi I have a situation, where a lot of threads seem to stop working right in my servlet. From debug output, I know they entered the servlet but never leave it. My problem is that this never occurs on our development system, but only on the production system. I need to stop tomcat end even do a

AW: wrong version 49.0

Sorry, http://learn.to/quote Regards, Steffen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Phillip Mangwiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. November 2004 08:06 An: Tomcat Users List Betreff: Re: wrong version 49.0 Wei Wei wrote: After installed 5.0.29 TC, I tried to bring up

AW: problem - BindException: JVM_Bind: 80

Hi Get tcpview pro (it's free) and check what binds this port. Regards, Steffen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Stephen Charles Huey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. November 2004 22:01 An: Tomcat User Betreff: problem - BindException: JVM_Bind: 80 I'm seeing a

AW: can't run a simple servlet on tomcat5.5 server

Hi ... and placed in a folder called web-inf/classes and I have placed sevlet.jar file in web-inf/lib folder. First, to start read the docs. Second, to start I would prefer a stable release, go back to 5.0. Third, tomcats libs are fine where they are. Don't copy them, remove the copies. Fourth,

AW: Upload MS DOC or Image file errors.

Hi Hi, I am use the File Upload. I need to read the whole file contents in a String buffer. Why into a String buffer? This is propably a charset encoding problem. Do NOT read it into a stringbuffer. See FileWriter documentation: FileWriter is meant for writing streams of characters. For

AW: proxy support and X-Forwarded-For

Hi Does Tomcat support the headers: X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Server when running behind a proxy? I'm running Tomcat 5.0.25 behind Apache 1.3/mod_proxy and doesn't look like Tomcat uses these headers. What would you expect tomcat to do when these headers are present?

AW: Upload MS DOC or Image file errors.

Hi This is much more than a character encoding problem. No. Daxin simply wanted to upload binary data (he even mentioned images...). So he didn't want to extract text from word documents. What he did was, he loaded binary data, converted that to a string and finally wrote the string to a file.

AW: Upload MS DOC or Image file errors.

Thanks. It works. Fine. But what? Switching to FileOutputStream or just using item.write? (They should both work, though the second seems to make more sence. Just asking for interest.) Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: AW: Session Definition Bug?

Hi I'm using the firefox browser and have no proxy definitions. First try another browser. Then, maybe your tomcat is configured to use cookies as session ids and your browser is configured not to accept cookies? However, since there is no different code for local and remote clients, I cannot

AW: Session Definition Bug?

Hi I am using jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27 standalone on windows xp pro. When I connect from a browser on the same host as Tomcat, the session listener is invoked on every request to to tomcat from the client... Are you sure? This doesn't happen to me. And as tomcat usually doesn't care about wether

AW: Session ID in URL

Hi How do I deal with a situation where a user logged in and found something interesting on my site and decided to give the URL address (with jsessionid) of the page to his/her friend? Since the URL has the session id of the sender, the receiver clicks on the link and will have access to the

AW: New User needing urgent help

Hi import Account; No. No. No. Import is used to make classes of foreign packages available. Classes in the same package are always available. And you should never have any package-less class, hence no problems. Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: Upgrading for the sake of it?

Hi So is the best advice to go with what I know best (and can be sure my websites run under) and install old versions. Or to go with the very latest of everything. I would recommend to use some recent version. Not the lastest, because they are alpha/beta versions. Simply try it and if it

Embedded tomcat

Hi Is there any place where I can find information about embedded tomcat? I mean beyond the docs - Examples and such? Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: Mysterious session behavior across browsers

Hi When I open a new browser, I am getting session data in the new browser that was in another browser. Actually, at least for my IE it works as follows: If I spawn a new browser window pressing ctrl-n, it is seen as a second view for the same content and as such, IE keeps the cookies and

AW: Apache 2.0 - mod_proxy, mod_cache - and Tomcat 4.1.29

Hi The backend apache does not only serve static pages like GIF or JS. It also handles PHP, Perl-scripts and some SSL. This can not be done with tomcat. Tomcat CAN do SSL just fine. For some seldomly used php and perl-scripts, tomcat is also just fine. But I agree, if lots of php and perl is

AW: Apache 2.0 - mod_proxy, mod_cache - and Tomcat 4.1.29

Hi For your problem, remove apache completely, use tomcat standalone and use squid as frontend cache. As static content will also be cached by squid, you can completely remove the overhead of apache and mod_jk. Regrads, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: How to redirect http to https automatically?

Hi Actually, I'm a big advocate against staying in HTTPS, because of the overhead. However, this is a problem with Tomcat, because in the 4.x and 5.x lines it was decided by someone that if a session started in HTTPS it is only valid in HTTPS (basically, the session cookie is turned into a

AW: AW: mod_jk2 Ready/Recommended For Production?

Hi However, here's an interesting/fairly recent thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-userm=106036177509367w=2 30K file: Server #of Samples Average Deviation Median Apache 1000 182ms 277 90 Tomcat 1000 185ms 249 80 And that way 4.1.27, over which 5.x

AW: Servlet caching?

Hi If I write a java program to list the services and run the program from the command line, I can see the newly added service right away. Modify your program to list the services, wait one minute, list the services again. Install a printer in that time. See, if the application reflects that

AW: Tomcat smtp SSL transport?

Hi Tomcat and QMail are installed on same host. Currently clients (Mozilla-mail, KMail, ect) send email using SSL encryption. If tomcat is on the same host as your mail daemon, ssl encryption makes no sense. Send the mail without ssl. It might be nessessary to configure this in QMail, but since

AW: mod_jk2 Ready/Recommended For Production?

Hi But if you run tomcat standalone, you have to run tomcat as root. NO. There are ways to run tomcat using jsvc and others. Search the archive - I haven't done so myself yet. Apache does not run as root, so if you run Apache in front of tomcat, you can avoid exposing the root account. And

AW: mod_jk2 Ready/Recommended For Production?

Hi Apache is likely much better than tomcat in serving static content, ... I assume you cannot prove that, right? Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

DefaultServlet

Hi I just read the DefaultServlet code and found in doGet(...) the following: try { serveResource(request, response, true); } catch( IOException ex ) { // we probably have this check somewhere else too. if( ex.getMessage() != null

AW: Need reseller hosting with Tomcat support

Hi Can anyone recommend a very reputable company that provides reliable unix reseller hosting with knowledgeable Tomcat support? Hi. Try www.ipx-server.de together with [EMAIL PROTECTED]@apache.org... Works fine for me. Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: DefaultServlet

Hi I see the code now. Its dead code. At one time - when tomcat was serving resources and the client pressed the stop button - a broken pipe exception would be logged. But since then in other code spots - the non-logging of broken pipe has been implemented. So you agree to remove it from the

AW: DefaultServlet

Hi if ( len buffer.length ) break; seems to be dead code too in DefaultServlet.copyRange( InputStream, ServletOutputStream, long, long ). Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: DefaultServlet

Hi Please don't make a habit of posting every bit of what you think is dead code on this list ;) There's enough traffic on here as-is. Ok, I see. Although I tried to keen it in one thread to make it easy to ignore it for others. If you feel like auditing the code, that's a great thing, and

AW: [OT] Re: AW: DefaultServlet

Hi Actually, I like these kind of patches and would be happy to evaluate/commit them ;) Okay, so for a start, can I do some changes that I think would be good for the code, make a diff and send that to you? Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: StringBuffer memory optimization

Hi There is a known StringBuffer memory leak in a certain version of the jvm (which I can't remember now offhand). But I'm pretty sure I mentioned on this list before, so search the archives. (or just wait.. someone will chime in with the exact version). I think it was around 4.1.2_05 ? First,

AW: DefaultServlet

Hi But that makes the archives useless: for example any discussions not-related to DefaultServlet don't belong in this thread. Right now, I am just reading that single file... Have confidence in yourself and do your testing ;) If your tests work, we'll most likely trust you. If they don't,

AW: Newbe to Tomcat, Jakara and Apache

Hi This has a combination of Jakarta-Tomcat (4.1.2) and Apache (1.3.27). Upgrade to the latest tomcat of the 4.1.x release. 4.1.2 is fairly old and there are newer versions of the same core. 5.0 is a newer spec, so that might not be what you want, but I would definitly upgrade to 4.0.30.

AW: Newbe to Tomcat, Jakara and Apache

Hi I've thought of upgrading to a newer version of both but have a concern that since the software was written for the older 4.1.2. Are there any good sources which could help me through the upgrade? The tomcat docs. Upgrading should only be a problem for major version changes, since they tend

AW: Threads in Tomcat 5

Hi Are there any solution about limit the process or threads count?. Remember that Tomcat server.xml parameters don`t work. For me, these settings work. However, remember what they describe. They set the numbers of workers, not total threads. You applicaton might spawn threads, tomcat might

AW: Mod JK2 Mapping and SSL

Hi If you have apache2 in front of it, you can create two different virtualhosts with VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80 mount unsecure here /VirtualHost VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 mount secure here /VirtualHost Regards, Steffen -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Scott Ahten [mailto:[EMAIL

Delegating to default Servlet

Hi I want to archieve the following: I want to map everything to a special servlet that checks for permissions and a lot other things and finally invokes other servlets or modules of my system for dynamic content. however, I do not want to reinvent the wheel, so I would like to pass static

AW: Search engine friendly URLs

Hi If you want to be able to scale your application, you need to be able to move the static image handling out of tomcat to a separate web server. Using Tomcat to handle both application chores and web serving chores will limit the overall scalability of your system. I strongly disagree. Tomcat

AW: newbie questions

Hi Finally for the stupid question of the day. I notice alot of information re: merging apache and tomcat. My question is why? I'm assuming the Apache is better at serving web pages that Tomcat but is that the only reason? It would seem that for a small website, just having Tomcat would be fine.

AW: Multiple arguments in a GET URL

Hi I am attempting to redirect to a URL that is similar to the following http://www.mysite.com/index.jsp?mainFrame=somePage.jsp?item1=info1item2=inf o2 However, I can only do a request.getParameter on item1 in the somePage.jsp JSP. When I attempt to do it for item2, it fails.. This is

AW: Recursive stack trace with Tiles and Filter - any ideas?

Hi Please: http://learn.to/quote -Original Message- Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: method level synchronization doesn't work

Hi I have to synchronize on the method ... No you do not need to synchonize on the method, you need to synchronize. You can synchronize on anything. The easiest would be to do the following: public static synchronized void amethod() { //some code that access the database and needs to be

AW: ___Close xml for reading from browser. how?

Hi Hello Users! I'm using xml files like configuration files for servlets. Is it possible to prevent these xml's from reading in browser but do not close access to servlet for read these files. Any ideas how to achieve this? Put these files in the webapps WEB-INF folder. Everything there should

AW: Servlet mapping problem

Hi I wrote a servlet with mapping as / . But when it is forwarded to subdirectory it is coming to same servlet and executing in a loop. You cannot map a single url. Tomcat only maps prefixes. So, you cannot map / with tomcat. (Resin can, but this is another story.) Here is a workaround: Map

AW: AW: ___Close xml for reading from browser. how?

Hi limit get locationmach /WEB-INF /location /limit or somthink like that? Might be, I dunno. Using apache directives to seldom. Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: How can I deploy 2 tomcat and work on both of them at the same time?

Hi I have tomcat jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 installed on my machine under /opt Now, I have installed another tomcat (same version) under another root directory. I need to have two versions working at the same time. Under one, I will have a client web version and under the other one, my test version.

AW: AW: Servlet mapping problem

Hi I cant grasp what you said. I am using Tomcat 4.1.x. I searched in Google for world welcome-file and could'nt find anything on it. Are you talking about welcome-file-list ?. Yes. It's entry is welcome-file. welcome-file-list welcome-fileroot/welcome-file /welcome-file-list

AW: Servlet mapping problem

Hi You cannot map a single url. Tomcat only maps prefixes. Really? Where did this nugget come from? ;) I nearly choked on my (otherwise fabulous) croissant. Your assertion above is wrong. Tomcat implements servlet mapping exactly as required by the Servlet Specification (SRV 11). That

AW: Servlet mapping problem

Hi No. You're mistaking the default configuration for something that's hard-coded. Out of the box, / is mapped to Tomcat's DefaultServlet, which handles static content. This is routine for other containers as well and is not a particular Tomcat trick. No, I did understand this. However, I

Strings in VARCHAR or BLOB

Hi I need to store webpages in the database. Until now I used BLOBs for this, but I think about switching to VARCHARs. It would not be a problem to limit the content to say 1 CHARs. However I am using ISO8859_1. (I think this is a one-byte-charset?) What would you recommend? Regards,

AW: Using shutdown script for different port

Hi Some documentation that I did manage to find suggested the following would work: shutdown.sh port 8015 but I get the usage message when I try that. I cannot tell you for shutdown.sh, but for me it works that way: catalina.sh start == to start as daemon catalina.sh stop == to stop

AW: start IE after tomcat start

Hi Use a script as follows: ---8 tomcat.bat net stop tomcat net start tomcat start iexplore.exe http://127.0.0.1:8080 exit ---8 tomcat.bat Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: sending signed mails from servlet

Hi I've used javamail-crypto, it's cool. It worked fine. The environment was very low stress as far as usage goes, something like one message every couple of days. Okay, I will give both a try: javamail-crypto AND bouncycastle.org. It detailed the meaning of alpha, beta, and stable ;)

AW: Problem!

Hi I have installed j2re-1_4_2_01-windows-i586 and jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25 on a Windows server 2003 SE. This will not work. Tomcats needs a java compiler, which is not part of the jre. Install the sdk. And better install j2sdk-1_4_2_05 instead of ..._01, because there were a lot of bug fixes,

AW: sending signed mails from servlet

Hi I have seen those already. - http://javamail-crypto.sourceforge.net/ early alpha makes me nervous for productive systems. - http://jpgpmime.sourceforge.net/ this is pgp, i need x509 s/mime. - http://www.wedgetail.com/jcsi/smime/ there is no information about pricing or license. -

AW: sending signed mails from servlet

Hi We are using www.bouncycastle.org to send s/MIME signed mails with javamail. I have seen this as well, as it is used as base of - http://javamail-crypto.sourceforge.net/ early alpha makes me nervous for productive systems. But there are no exsamples. Could you please provide me a

AW: IIS with Tomcat integration

Hi Solved. Need to restart windows, whenever the settings in uriworkermap.properties is modified. Seems like the isapi_redirect.dll can only get reloaded by windows restart and not by restarting the IIS website. Try restarting the website AND the iisadmin service. Regards, Steffen

AW: Tomcat Hanging up !!!

Hi Come on, Tomcat 3.2.1??? This is way tooo old. JDK 1.3.1_13? The same! IBM_HTTP_SERVER? predecessor of Apache httpd? Again. Remove them altogether! Install jdk1.4.2_05 and tomcat 5.0.28. No neither use httpd NOR mod_jk. You will be fine and happy with this. I doublt, you will find someone

AW: Tomcat Hanging up !!!

Hi If I install Apache 2.0 and Tomcat 4.1 and use mod_jk that is compatible for that I don't what issues will be raised by that. Right, that is why I suggest using tomcat ONLY. This works, and even when tomcat 3.2.1 might be slower that ibm_httpd, tomcat 5.0 is really fast and is at almost at

urlencoding and Tomcat 5.0

Hi I used tomcat 4.0.6, 4.1.x, 5.0.x and more without problems. But now, I have a problem with character encoding. I use iso-8851-1 all over the place. My javascript takes a input.value and passes them to my servlet using an url such as http://server/servlet?data=; + encodeURIComponent(value).

AW: Not listening on Shutdown port TC 4.0.6 on Win XP Pro

Hi I have successfully installed TC 4.0.6 on Win XP Pro and it starts fine at boot time. Is there any reason, you did that? 4.0.6 is VERY old. Try 5.0.x at least. Regards, Steffen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

AW: Https, mod_proxy and mod_jk

Hi If you do not have that much SSL traffic, you can use mod_proxy to forward requests to servlet containers using SSL! You only need to install a low-bit certificate in your container and make that certificate accepted by your apache. It can even be self-signed. However, your container will have

AW: Https, mod_proxy and mod_jk

Hi And I would say the opposite, mod_proxy is great, as a matter of fact, the next version of it will have the AJP protocol in it, and mod_proxy is proven to be very stable. This is great news for me. Is there any date when this will be stable / public?? If you are into advanced config, you

AW: Https, mod_proxy and mod_jk

Hi just use your imagination. I'm sure you can figure out how to pass the remote host to tomcat, one way or the other, but to say it cannot be circumvented, thats a little strong :) You can do that, if you pass parameters, but then you have to change your webapp, wich is not possible, if you

AW: Https, mod_proxy and mod_jk

Hi (1) how I make a certificate accepted by apache Hm, I don't know, maybe someone else can answer this. Try a selfsigned at first. (2) how I make mod_proxy redirect requests from port 443 to my tomcat on port 8443 and request from port 80 to tomcat on port 8080 VirtualHost :443

AW: How to configure crystal report 10 in Tomcat 4.1

Hi I have a web application using tomcat 4.1. I want to access a crystal report. I have installed crystal report 10. Can I view that from Tomcat 4.1? What are the configuration steps? I found the instruction for Tomcat 5.0 in the web, but not for Tomcat 4.1. Please help me. Have you tried

AW: once again: can't send request over my network ip

Hi I'm using Tomcat 5.0.27. I can access it from my computer via 127.0.0.1:8080, but not via 192.168.1.172:8080. But I can reach Tomcat from another computer in the network via 192.168.1.172:8080. I didn't change any Tomcat settings. I'm using WinXP Professional and no firewall is running.

Sorry, Test, please ignore

PLEASE IGNORE. Hi Some month ago I could not subscribe using my usual mail account, so I subscribed with an alternative one. Now, I test to get on the list again. Since I got a confirmation, that I am on the list using this account, I decided to send a test message. Hope, it works. Sorry,

AW: why is tomcat-users.xml rewritten ?

Hi Each time tomcat is restarted the file tomcat-users.xml is rewritten. It is horrible since my umask being 0022 the file which stores passwords become world readable. Obviously this file has to be read my the server but I do not see any valuable reason to write it back opening a serious

AW: Linking Sessions

Hi If I understand your setup, you could look into Single Sign-On. Tomcat has a special Valve for this. Search the docs/archives for details. Sorry, no. Single Sign-On only works on the same domain, as it requires sessions itself. If that doesn't work for you -- granted, there are some