"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> It's not clear from your description how it is really set up, but why can't
> you forward CGI requests back to the server the same way you forward file
> requests? Or are you actually serving the files yourself?
I do a get context, and then getservlet("file") and make it do the work
for me. I know that this has been deprecated, but the new sdk does not
give me anything that I really need ( AFAIK ) so I'm holding off on
upgrading.
> If your app is grabbing the incoming requests before the web server ever sees
> them, one easy approach would be to build a java.net.URLConnection and talk to
> the web server itself (on a private port that is blocked from external
> access), as if you were the client. There are some simple examples of this in
> the Java Language Tutorial on Javasoft's web site. You will probably need
> something a little more complex to deal with POST requests, and including all
> the headers you received from the client, but it is certainly possible.
Yeah, that's what I figured I was going to have to do.
It does not sound like it would be too painful, and it seems that I
don't have a choice based on what Costin wrote in another reply -
apparently he tried to use RD to pass stuff to cgi and it did not work
right.
Alfonso.
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