No solution, but: 1) Enable Tomcats access log to check, whether the request contains the path parameter (validate your hypotheses)
2) Send a request like it should look like from the same browser, but not via the applet, instead directly via the address bar and check the access log again. 3) Could your applet show the request URL it sends in the window, before it sends it? This way you can make sure, your problem really comes from the missing URL part, if your applet really tried to send it and if it gets stripped from any kind of request. If so, and if there is no other component between your client and tomcat apart from the firewall you need to blame the firewall admins. No Proxy involved? Regards, Rainer Rick Strong schrieb: > RE Tomcat 5, applet, servlet, firewall, other security. > > Hi All, > > Somewhat new to Applet/Servlet work, and in need of some assistance. > > My app has an applet front end and a servlet back end. The user first > contacts the servlet, which writes an HTTP response back including an > APPLET tag, passing the JSESSIONID gotten from the session as a PARAM > tag for the applet. In the applet, I rewrite the server's URL and append > ";jsessionid=[the session id]" before using the URL to communicate via a > URLConnection, so that the server knows that this is still the same > session. > > This works fine as long as everyone is on one side or the other of the > firewall, but when I put the server behind the firewall, trying to talk > to it from outside the firewall fails (HTTP error 500) Upon debugging > this setup, I noticed that the requestedSessionID is consistently null, > where it normally picks up the session id I supply in the APPLET tag. > > My network keepers assure me that the firewall is not blocking cookies, > there are no proxies or NATs or anything in the way, but I'm losing the > requested session id and as a result the server thinks that the reply > from the applet is a request for a new session...which kills the app. Argh. > > Any ideas as to how I can figure out what is mangling my applet's > requests across the firewall? Any information very much appreciated! > > Rick Strong > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
