Hi, I made a mistake. At least with Tomcat 5.5.x, if you configure the SolrRequestFilter with <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher> it indeed gets called even when you forward from another web-context!
Note, that the documentation says this might be problematic! Sorry for the previous overhasty post. Björn > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > g > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pache.org] Im Auftrag von Hachmann, Bjoern > Gesendet: Samstag, 6. September 2008 08:01 > An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Betreff: Cross-context-forward to solr-instance > > Hi, > > yesterday I tried the Solr-1.3-RC2 and everything seems to > work fine using the traditional single-core setup. But while > troubleshooting the new multi-core feature, I realized for > the first time, that I have been using the deprecated (even > in 1.2) class SolrServlet. This is a huge problem for us, as > we run the solr-web-app parallel to our main web-app in the > same servlet-container. Using this approach we can internally > forward update- and select-requests to the Solr-instance > currently in use. > > ServletContext ctx = getServletContext().getContext("solr1"); > RequestDispatcher rd = ctx.getNamedDispatcher("SolrServer"); > rd.forward(request, response); > > As you can see, this approach only works for the servlet > named 'SolrServer' which references the deprecated class. > > The attempt of using a path based dispatcher > (ctx.getRequestDispatcher) was not successful, even though I > configured the SolrRequestFilter in the solr-web.xml to work > on forwards (<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>), which the > documentation discourages. Maybe this is because of the > cross-context-dispatch? > > At the moment I ran totally out of ideas, apart from > completely redesigning our whole setup. Any ideas are highly > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Björn
