[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> > If the firewall is the problem try to use 127.0.0.1
> > instead of localhost.
> 
> No, I think you got me wrong. The firewall is actually not the problem,
> because it never blocks, it always asks. But it does not ask, when the
> servlet is invoked. So this proofs that something before is already
> blocking. And I think that might be the tomcat security manager. I read
> something about this when the issue was about letting strangers install
> webapps on your system
> 
> Normaly you would expect, that with a webapp you can do everything with
> the server. But you can't, when there is a security manager, similar to
> the one that keeps an eye on applets in browsers.
> 
> But I didn't find out about that security manager in tomcat so far.
> Does anyone knows about?

Tomcat does not use a security manager by default. It is only
used, if you start Tomcat with the option -security.
It would print "Using Security Manager" to the console. 

Look into $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh for details.

Regards
 Martin


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