extension headers and SSL

[Thad Humphries <th...@mindwrap.com>]

Summary:  We've got Tomcat 3.2.1 with mod_jk.so working under SSL except 
for one thing (details below).  Any one have any ideas what might be missing?

Details:

We are developing a J2EE application with Apache 1.3.12 (and above) and 
Tomcat 3.2.1 on Linux and Solaris.  In places the UI relies on XHTML 
generated from JSPs, in other places on applets.  Several portions of our 
application uses HTTP headers to pass information between the JSPs and the 
applets:  The JSP will call

	response.setHeader( "my-custom-header", someString );

and the applet gets this value by calling

	URLConnection c = someURL.openConnection();
	...
	String  someString = c.getHeaderField( "my-custom-header" );

This approach is okay with the HTTP/1.1 spec as an extension header (para. 
7.1).  When I run this code one Apache-Tomcat, all is well--my applet sees 
what the JSP sets.

We've installed Stronghold 3.0 on a Solaris box.  Tomcat 3.2.1 has also 
been installed, configured, and tested with Stronghold using mod_jk.  The 
above method of passing information works fine with Stronghold only so long 
as SSL is not used.  Connecting via http:// works fine.  However, when 
connecting with SSL, via https://, the URLConnection.getHeaderField() 
method returns null.

Can anyone help us out here?  I think this should be allowable under SSL as 
it is without it.  Is there something I need to add to my configuration?

Thanks for your help.
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JSPs and PATH_INFO

[Thad Humphries <th...@mindwrap.com>]

Is there any way to get a JSP to recognize response.getPathInfo() (a.k.a., 
a CGI's PATH_INFO) the same way a servlet does?  When I call 
http://localhost/examples/servlet/RequestInfoExample/blahblahblah I get a 
path info of 'blahblahblah' but if 
http://localhost/examples/jsp/snp/snoop.jsp/blahblahblah I get a 404 File 
not found on examples/jsp/snp/snoop.jsp/blahblahblah
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