> -----Original Message-----
> From: ope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Using Tomcat as a proxy?
>
>
>
> > Why would you want to use a Java Servlet Container
> > to do proxying? It's like
> > using a Space Shuttle to do door-to-door delivery.
> > If you need proxying, use
> > Squid or Apache.
>
> The reason I have to do this is to make the best of a
> rather brain dead product deployment. This is not a
> long term fix but it is only a temporary fix to keep
> customers happy for two months until we can change
> everything. I got thrown into the whole mix after the
> fact. Unfortunately installing Apache or Squid (my
> first suggestion) on the clients site is not an
> option.
>
> > If you want to have pieces of other sites inside
> > your webapp, the it is a whole
> > new ball game.
>
> Ultimately this is the idea. Basically we need to use
> our webapp to get a page from another server and pass
> it back to the user but make it appear that it came
> from our webapp. It is an ugly thing to do but I need
> to find a quick fix before I can work on a real fix.
> If you have any ideas, suggestions or links I would
> appreciate it.
Open a URLConnection to the real page, read the data and write it to your
output stream. This can be done in a servlet or a filter.
Charlie
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