can i write a web-App in Tomcat and set it in deployment to act as a proxy WebApp, meaning it will receive the request from some web browser for intermediate processing and further forwarding?
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can i write a web-App in Tomcat and set it in deployment to act as a proxy WebApp, meaning it will receive the request from some web browser for intermediate processing and further forwarding?
thanks
Without claiming that this is the definitive answer: I assume it is not possible.
Usually, you map a path prefix to a web application.
I.e. http://your.site/app will map to a single application.
The web server (tomcat resp. frontent server) will see a GET (e.g.) request for /app (without the host part).
The request line looks like this:
With a proxy, things are different. The whole URL is submitted to the proxy server and a request line would look like:
I would assume there is not way to handle that with Tomcat, as it is simply not made for that.
There might be an option to use a frontend proxy (apache) and to rewrite URLs before passing them to the app, but that sounds rather odd.