On 20/03/2013 16:14, Stadelmann Josef wrote: > Thank you Jeffrey > > BUT > we are not FW owner, AND > we are so tiny little smalls in the AXA world AND > our holly FW godfather admin is keeping his fingers on the holly FW. > > But why can tomcat not close and open the port 8080 and keep > it in a way inexistent for external access unless the server is really up! > I am not a TCP socket expert, so I do not know what else we can do to prevent > that a request from our users reaching the server too early. > > How is that normally I intend to GET a html page and get the return saying > "Sorry but server maintenance work is in progress blab la bla"?
Tomcat provides no such messages by default so something else is providing that. For a clean Tomcat install, the setting you want is bindOnInit="false" from: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
