On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Yves Duhem wrote: > Hi, > I would like to use servlets and tomcat without having to communicate > via http. > my request's first line would indicate in some way the target servlet > and the rest would be the data to transmit to the servlet > the response would be only the data (no headers). > (and all this would be used with SSL.) > > I would like to know if a connector behaving like this exists somewhere, > or if i'll have to modify one of the existing connectors (and in that > case is there any developer documentation about the connector framework?).
Are you saying that you really don't want to use HTTP (as a protocol), or just that you want to do this outside the context of a web browser? Because in the current HTTP framework there's nothing that's stopping you from using it outside of a web browser. You can, for example, set up a java application that opens a URLConnection to a Tomcat server. You can even transfer objects this way (to a certain degree) instead of just parameters, because you'll have direct control of reading/writing the I/O streams. I'm not really sure what not using HTTP buys you, because then you're essentially creating your own client/server system and defining your own protocol, and you have to set everything up. If you use HTTP, you get a lot essentially "for free" (including parameter passing, sessions, cookies, ssl, etc.) Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
