We are running a java based application served on SSL by Tomcat 5.
Everything is working fine *except* for users who access the application
using IE as their browser. They encounter the well-known *bug* in IE
which causes downloads to fail over SSL if the server sends a no-cache
in the header. As many of our clients will use IE we have to disable
this.
I have found numerous posts that indicate that this is possible by using
the disableproxycaching="false" directive in the server.xml file.
So this is what I am trying to do....problem is it doenst work.
When I include the code:
<Context>
<Valve
className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.NoLoginAuthenticator"
disableProxyCaching="false"/>
</Context>
In server.xml tomcat hangs on startup. Comment the line out and
everything is fine and the application works - but the IE users cant use
the app(!).
I am *not* a Tomcat configuration expert so I am sure the problem is
with my syntax, or understanding of where the code should sit in the
server.xml file, or the interaction between the context directives that
are already there. I have been fighting this for several days now and
have gone through all the howtoos I can find - but they all show
snippets of code, rather than the directive withint he context of a
complete server.xml.
Anyway - if Ianyone can point out where I am going wrong that would be
great. My server.xml is below. Hope this isnt too long for the list.
Thanks
Al
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Server.xml
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN_NOW">
<!-- Define the Tomcat Stand-Alone Service -->
<Service name="Catalina">
<Connector port="8080"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
maxThreads="500" connectionTimeout="60000"
redirectPort="443" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" />
<Connector port="443"
maxThreads="150" connectionTimeout="60000"
scheme="https" secure = "true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="/etc/security/servoy.ks"
keystorePass="******"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" />
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false"
xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log."
suffix=".txt"
pattern="common"/>
<!-- disable the sending of no-cache in the headers so that IE can
download the java applet over SSL
When this is enabled tomcat hangs on startup.......why?
-->
<Context>
<Valve
className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.NoLoginAuthenticator"
disableProxyCaching="false"/>
</Context>
<Context path="/lib" docBase="../../lib"/>
<Context path="/plugins" docBase="../../plugins"/>
<Context path="/beans" docBase="../../beans"/>
<Context path="/lafs" docBase="../../lafs"/>
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>
