What value to use for serverName?- Infinite loop during redirection problem

[Scott Battaglia]

It should be set to myserver:8080

-Scott

On 3/15/07, webzo <webzo2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Lets say I have a machine that hosts tomcat, cas and my webapp. My webapp
> requires that it be accessed only via an absolute url that contains the name
> of the server. What I mean by that is- If a user attempts to use the ip of
> the server as in, say, 172.167.243.12:8080/DDD/main.jsp, some code within
> the app redirects the browser back to http://myserver:8080/DDD/main.jsp.
> Similarly, if a user logins in to the server and tries to access the
> application using http://localhost:8080/DDD/main.jsp (locally using a
> browser on the server itself), he is again redirected to
> http://myserver:8080/DDD/main.jsp. So, basically, my webapp *requires*
> that the initial part of the url be http://myserver:8080/DDD.
>
> The problem- I set the serverName to localhost:8080 in web.xml. Then I try
> to access my app using http://myserver:8080/DDD/main.jsp. I get
> authenticated and CAS tries to redirect me to
> http://localhost:8080/DDD/main.jsp. The code in my webapp figures out that
> "localhost" is being used instead of "myserver" and redirects to
> http://myserver:8080/DDD/main.jsp as required by the app. This causes CAS
> to authenticate again (I am NOT asked for username/password again) and CAS
> again redirects to http://localhost:8080/DDD/main.jsp and the cycle
> continues endlessly.
>
> How do I fix this? What value can I use for serverName? Is there a way by
> which I can prevent the second redirect from within my application to not go
> to CAS? I tried adding "?gateway=true" to the second redirect Url. But that
> didn't help.
>
> Appreaciate any help.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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