Httpclient should work fine. Ideally, if you wish to have a tomcat servlet act a proxy server, be sure you read the HTTP specs with respect to proxy servers. There are many gotchas.

Before writing too much code and IF you are able to use apache, it would be infinitely easier to use mod_proxy.

-Tim

Pike wrote:

Hi

I would like to write a servlet that  intercepts http
requests, and optionally rebuilds and redirects
them to other (remote) servers.

but tomcat doesnt know how to send remote
httprequests, does it ?

so I guess I need to incorporate a httpclient
in my project. is that correct  ? does anyone
have any experience in writing proxies ?

I've found 2 liable http client apis

jakarta-commons'
    http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/tutorial.html
and ballard's (looks great!)(supports webdav!!)
    http://www.geocities.com/ballarke/Projects/HttpClient/


cu *pike




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