blocking connections

2003-10-09 Thread Roman Bednarek
Hi. I want to block connections from some hosts, I was reading about Filters and Valves, but I think they cannot do what I want to achive. The goals are: - block connection very early, immediately after connection, before reading and parsing any data from the client (to save the bandwith) -

Re: blocking connections

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Funk
There is already valves which do this. See Remote Address Filter in http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/valve.html -Tim Roman Bednarek wrote: Hi. I want to block connections from some hosts, I was reading about Filters and Valves, but I think they cannot do what I want to

Re: blocking connections

2003-10-09 Thread Roman Bednarek
Hi. I thought that a valve can be used only after the request object is created(maybe I am wrong), so at that time the data from client is already read and processed, and it is too late. Thanks Roman Bednarek On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Tim Funk wrote: There is already valves which do this.