Hi. I thought that a valve can be used only after the request object is created(maybe I am wrong), so at that time the data from client is already read and processed, and it is too late.
Thanks Roman Bednarek On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Tim Funk wrote: > There is already valves which do this. > > See Remote Address Filter in > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/valve.html > > -Tim > > Roman Bednarek wrote: > > > Hi. > > I want to block connections from some hosts, I was reading about Filters > > and Valves, but I think they cannot do what I want to achive. > > The goals are: > > - block connection very early, immediately after connection, before > > reading and parsing any data from the client (to save the bandwith) > > - manage an access list from the servlet, adding and removing hosts when > > necessary > > It would be better to achive this under stable tomcat release that is > > 4.*. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]