Re: [Bodington-developers] Abolute URLs - Bug or Bug Fix?

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Sean Mehan wrote:
> Uhmm, why reinvent the wheel? Mod_proxy for Apache, in front of your  
> tomcat?

Performance and Transparency.

AJP provides a binary connection between your Web Server and your 
Servlet Container so that you don't end up fully parsing the request 
twice. It also passed extra info across to the servlet container (URL, 
SSL stuff) which can get lost when proxying (request.isSecure()). 
Finally it has persistent connections between the web server and the 
servlet container so that you don't make a new TCP connection per request.

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