Green, Jeffrey wrote:

>Aaah. I see. Unfortunately sendRedirect() does not work at the valve
>level.
>
That's not true ;-) SunOne AppServ is using that technique :-) Why are
you saying it doesn't work at the valve level?

>I could use that solution only if I implemented the redirect for
>each specific webapp, but this is a bit too much code duplication to be
>productive / condusive to change.
>
Why? It depends where you put the valve? Remember you can also place
your valve at the engine level.

>It seems that this decision has crippled
>some of Tomcat's functionality - whereas before, I could redirect requests
>across a whole host, now I can only do that per webapp.
>Was anything else implemented to achieve such functionality instead?
>
Yes, by using the mapper directly. But that's a lot of works (you need
to understand how the mapper works, etc.). The main object to look at
is MappingData where the result of the mapping is stored.

-- Jeanfrancois




> Thanks
>again.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeanfrancois Arcand [mailto:jfarcand@(protected)]
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:21 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: org.apache.catalina.HttpRequest.setRequestURI() and valves
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>
>Green, Jeffrey wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello all. Using valves in Tomcat 4, we successfully managed to
>>intercept requests to specific contexts and direct them elsewhere. For
>>example, we could intercept all requests to /SECRETWEBAPP and redirect them
>>  
>>
>to /.
>
>
>>In order to accomplish this, we used valves which would call
>>setRequestURI("/") on all requests that were prefixed with
>>"/SECRETWEBAPP". Unfortunately, this technique no longer seems to work
>>with Tomcat 5. Does anyone know if anything changed regarding such
>>usage of this method or if there is a better way to do this?
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>Yes, the HTTP Mapper has been completely re-written. The mapping occurs
>*before* entering the pipeline (valve) instead of *after* in Tomcat 4.
>You may want to try a re-direct instead. Something like:
>
>if ( bla bla)
>           hresponse.sendRedirect(
>                hresponse.encodeRedirectURL("/"));
>
>
>-- Jeanfrancois
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>
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