> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: Tomcat Developers List
> Subject: Re: Spec question: RE BUG 12052
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> On 28 Aug 2002, Bojan Smojver wrote:
>
> > Date: 28 Aug 2002 23:27:18 +1000
> > From: Bojan Smojver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Tomcat Dev List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Spec question: RE BUG 12052
> >
> > Craig,
> >
> > I think this bug report is invalid, since Tomcat/Apache has no
> > knowledge of load balancers and firewalls, so it is unrealistic to
> > expect to return port numbers that it doesn't know about.
> What do you
> > think?
> >
> > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12052
> >
> > Other opinions welcome :-)
> >
>
> There are circumstances when we're not going to know the port
> number, but normal use of Tomcat behind JK doesn't seem to be
> one of them, IMHO.
>
> Consider Apache running on port 80, forwarding to Tomcat on
> 8009 (the default setup). I think it's reasonable for the
> application developer to assume that getServerPort() is going
> to return 80 and not 8009, because they should conceptually
> view the entire "Apache+Tomcat" thing as a single server.
I have to disagree with you there. If a request comes to the servlet
engine
on port 8009 then getServerPort() should return that. It is bad to have
Tomcat try and guess where its requests are coming from.
>
> As for implementing this, a couple of possibilities:
>
> * Include the port number along with the host name (haven't checked
> if this is already happening)
>
> * Add a protocol variable in the JK protocol so that the web server
> can forward which port number the request was received on.
>
> * Add a Connector property saying the port number that should be
> used for getServerPort() for all requests processed by this
> connector
> (the deprecated HttpConnector code had proxyPort for this purpose).
>
> If a load balancer or proxy *ahead* of Apache is doing the
> port shifting, there's not a lot we can do. But we should
> cover the case for requests that come in to the web server
> and get forwarded by us.
>
> > Bojan
>
> Craig
>
>
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