On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:58:46PM -0400, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > OK, she said we need Tomcat because of PAC scripts to do the proxy auto > > configurations. > > I think she's still confused. Sorry if you already know all this, but > I'm new to proxy research and I'd never heard of a "PAC script". Here's > my reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config
No problems. I am confused and new too, and of course learning! :) Good find too. I didn't think PAC was a generic thing. I thought it was only for Tomcat. > These scripts don't appear to have anything to do with Tomcat > specifically. Let me re-state this: Tomcat does not include any kind of > build-in proxying capability. You'd either have to write your own web > application to run in Tomcat and do the proxying (which is totally > stupid, because you'd be performing a /ton/ of work that is not > necessary just to then hand-off the request to another server) or use > someone else's existing application (equally stupid for the previously > stated reason). > > You might want to read > http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.html > for information on these scripts and ultimately how to use them. Excellent finds. I will share those. > > So, do I still need to do the Apache [web] server? > > Maybe? If you want to do proxying, Apache httpd will get you closer than > Apache Tomcat, but I think there are better products out there for you > (see below). If you're still interested, you can read > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html for everything > Apache httpd can do for you proxy-wise. Thanks. Maybe she wanted me to run Apache and not Tomcat. I will have to talk her about that. > > If so, then can I put both Tomcat and Apache on one machine to act a > > server and another computer? > > Uh... huh? Yes, you can install both Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat on > the same machine, but I'm not sure why you'd want both (or either)? Well, it sounded like Apache httpd and Tomcat are two differnet things. Apache for web service/server and Tomcat to add to Apache. > You might want to start with the information you can find on Wikipedia > about proxy servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) > specifically the sections on "web proxy" and "proxy software". Instead > of trying to get httpd or Tomcat as a proxy server, why not use > something that was built specifically to act as a proxy (such as Squid). OK. I actually used CCproxy (http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/) and got it to work. She wanted me to use Tomcat for another scenario. [shrugs] Thanks again. :) -- "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men." --Mortimer J. Adler /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / E-mail: phi...@earthlink.net or a...@zimage.com ( ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
