| [66] | 1 | <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Apache Tomcat Configuration Reference - The AJP Connector</title><meta value="Remy Maucherat" name="author"><meta value="remm@apache.org" name="email"><meta value="Yoav Shapira" name="author"><meta value="yoavs@apache.org" name="email"><meta value="Andrew R. Jaquith" name="author"><meta value="arjaquith@mindspring.com" name="email"></head><body vlink="#525D76" alink="#525D76" link="#525D76" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td><!--PROJECT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt=" | 
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 | 4 |  | 
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 | 5 |   <p>The <strong>AJP Connector</strong> element represents a | 
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 | 6 |   <strong>Connector</strong> component that communicates with a web | 
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 | 7 |   connector via the <code>AJP</code> protocol.  This is used for cases | 
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 | 8 |   where you wish to invisibly integrate Tomcat 6 into an existing (or new) | 
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 | 9 |   Apache installation, and you want Apache to handle the static content | 
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 | 10 |   contained in the web application, and/or utilize Apache's SSL | 
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 | 11 |   processing.</p> | 
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 | 12 |  | 
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 | 13 |   <p>This connector supports load balancing when used in conjunction with | 
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 | 14 |   the <code>jvmRoute</code> attribute of the  | 
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 | 15 |   <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>.</p> | 
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 | 16 |  | 
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 | 17 | <p>The native connectors supported with this Tomcat release are: | 
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 | 18 | <ul> | 
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 | 19 |   <li>JK 1.2.x with any of the supported servers</li> | 
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 | 20 |   <li>mod_proxy on Apache httpd 2.x (included by default in Apache HTTP Server 2.2),  | 
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 | 21 |       with AJP enabled: see | 
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 | 22 |       <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html">the httpd docs</a> | 
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 | 23 |       for details.</li> | 
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 | 24 | </ul> | 
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 | 25 | </p> | 
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 | 26 |  | 
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 | 27 | <p><b>Other native connectors supporting AJP may work, but are no longer supported.</b></p> | 
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 | 28 |  | 
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 | 29 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 30 |  | 
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 | 31 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Common Attributes"><strong>Common Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 32 |  | 
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 | 33 |   <p>All implementations of <strong>Connector</strong> | 
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 | 34 |   support the following attributes:</p> | 
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 | 35 |  | 
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 | 36 |   <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>allowTrace</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 37 |       <p>A boolean value which can be used to enable or disable the TRACE | 
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 | 38 |       HTTP method. If not specified, this attribute is set to false.</p> | 
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 | 39 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>emptySessionPath</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 40 |       <p>If set to <code>true</code>, all paths for session cookies will be set | 
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 | 41 |       to <code>/</code>. This can be useful for portlet specification implementations. | 
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 | 42 |       If not specified, this attribute is set to <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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 | 43 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>enableLookups</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 44 |       <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want calls to | 
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 | 45 |       <code>request.getRemoteHost()</code> to perform DNS lookups in | 
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 | 46 |       order to return the actual host name of the remote client.  Set | 
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 | 47 |       to <code>false</code> to skip the DNS lookup and return the IP | 
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 | 48 |       address in String form instead (thereby improving performance). | 
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 | 49 |       By default, DNS lookups are enabled.</p> | 
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 | 50 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxPostSize</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 51 |       <p>The maximum size in bytes of the POST which will be handled by | 
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 | 52 |       the container FORM URL parameter parsing. The feature can be disabled by | 
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 | 53 |       setting this attribute to a value less than or equal to 0. | 
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 | 54 |       If not specified, this attribute is set to 2097152 (2 megabytes).</p> | 
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 | 55 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxSavePostSize</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 56 |       <p>The maximum size in bytes of the POST which will be saved/buffered by | 
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 | 57 |       the container during FORM or CLIENT-CERT authentication. For both types | 
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 | 58 |       of authentication, the POST will be saved/buffered before the user is | 
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 | 59 |       authenticated. For CLIENT-CERT authentication, the POST is buffered for | 
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 | 60 |       the duration of the SSL handshake and the buffer emptied when the request | 
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 | 61 |       is processed. For FORM authentication the POST is saved whilst the user | 
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 | 62 |       is re-directed to the login form and is retained until the user | 
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 | 63 |       successfully authenticates or the session associated with the | 
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 | 64 |       authentication request expires. The limit can be disabled by setting this | 
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 | 65 |       attribute to -1. Setting the attribute to zero will disable the saving of | 
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 | 66 |       POST data during authentication. If not specified, this attribute is set | 
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 | 67 |       to 4096 (4 kilobytes).</p> | 
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 | 68 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>protocol</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 69 |       <p>This attribute value must be <code>AJP/1.3</code> to use the AJP | 
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 | 70 |       handler.</p> | 
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 | 71 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>proxyName</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 72 |       <p>If this <strong>Connector</strong> is being used in a proxy | 
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 | 73 |       configuration, configure this attribute to specify the server name | 
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 | 74 |       to be returned for calls to <code>request.getServerName()</code>. | 
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 | 75 |       See <a href="#Proxy Support">Proxy Support</a> for more | 
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 | 76 |       information.</p> | 
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 | 77 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>proxyPort</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 78 |       <p>If this <strong>Connector</strong> is being used in a proxy | 
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 | 79 |       configuration, configure this attribute to specify the server port | 
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 | 80 |       to be returned for calls to <code>request.getServerPort()</code>. | 
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 | 81 |       See <a href="#Proxy Support">Proxy Support</a> for more | 
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 | 82 |       information.</p> | 
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 | 83 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>redirectPort</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 84 |       <p>If this <strong>Connector</strong> is supporting non-SSL | 
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 | 85 |       requests, and a request is received for which a matching | 
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 | 86 |       <code><security-constraint></code> requires SSL transport, | 
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 | 87 |       Catalina will automatically redirect the request to the port | 
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 | 88 |       number specified here.</p> | 
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 | 89 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>request.registerRequests</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 90 |       <p>This attribute controls request registration for JMX monitoring | 
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 | 91 |       of the Connector.  It is enabled by default, but may be turned | 
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 | 92 |       it off to save a bit of memory.</p> | 
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 | 93 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>scheme</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 94 |       <p>Set this attribute to the name of the protocol you wish to have | 
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 | 95 |       returned by calls to <code>request.getScheme()</code>.  For | 
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 | 96 |       example, you would set this attribute to "<code>https</code>" | 
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 | 97 |       for an SSL Connector.  The default value is "<code>http</code>". | 
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 | 98 |       See <a href="#SSL Support">SSL Support</a> for more information.</p> | 
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 | 99 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>secure</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 100 |       <p>Set this attribute to <code>true</code> if you wish to have | 
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 | 101 |       calls to <code>request.isSecure()</code> to return <code>true</code> | 
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 | 102 |       for requests received by this Connector (you would want this on an | 
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 | 103 |       SSL Connector).  The default value is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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 | 104 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>URIEncoding</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 105 |       <p>This specifies the character encoding used to decode the URI bytes, | 
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 | 106 |       after %xx decoding the URL. If not specified, ISO-8859-1 will be used. | 
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 | 107 |       </p> | 
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 | 108 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>useBodyEncodingForURI</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 109 |       <p>This specifies if the encoding specified in contentType should be used | 
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 | 110 |       for URI query parameters, instead of using the URIEncoding. This | 
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 | 111 |       setting is present for compatibility with Tomcat 4.1.x, where the | 
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 | 112 |       encoding specified in the contentType, or explicitely set using | 
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 | 113 |       Request.setCharacterEncoding method was also used for the parameters from | 
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 | 114 |       the URL. The default value is <code>false</code>. | 
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 | 115 |       </p> | 
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 | 116 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>useIPVHosts</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 117 |       <p>Set this attribute to <code>true</code> to cause Tomcat to use | 
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 | 118 |       the ServerName passed by the native web server to determine the Host | 
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 | 119 |       to send the request to.  The default value is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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 | 120 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>xpoweredBy</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 121 |       <p>Set this attribute to <code>true</code> to cause Tomcat to advertise | 
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 | 122 |       support for the Srevlet specification using the header recommended in the | 
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 | 123 |       specification.  The default value is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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 | 124 |     </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 125 |  | 
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 | 126 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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 | 127 |  | 
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 | 128 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Standard Implementation"><strong>Standard Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 129 |  | 
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 | 130 |   <p>To use AJP, you | 
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 | 131 |   must specify the protocol attribute (see above).</p> | 
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 | 132 |  | 
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 | 133 |   <p><strong>This implementation supports the AJP 1.3 protocol.</strong></p> | 
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 | 134 |  | 
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 | 135 |   <p>It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the | 
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 | 136 |   common attributes listed above):</p> | 
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 | 137 |  | 
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 | 138 |   <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>address</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 139 |       <p>For servers with more than one IP address, this attribute | 
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 | 140 |       specifies which address will be used for listening on the specified | 
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 | 141 |       port.  By default, this port will be used on all IP addresses | 
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 | 142 |       associated with the server. A value of <code>127.0.0.1</code> | 
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 | 143 |       indicates that the Connector will only listen on the loopback | 
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 | 144 |       interface.</p> | 
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 | 145 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>backlog</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 146 |       <p>The maximum queue length for incoming connection requests when | 
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 | 147 |       all possible request processing threads are in use.  Any requests | 
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 | 148 |       received when the queue is full will be refused.  The default | 
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 | 149 |       value is 10.</p> | 
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 | 150 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>bufferSize</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 151 |       <p>The size of the output buffer to use.  If less than or equal to zero, | 
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 | 152 |          then output buffering is disabled.  The default value is -1 | 
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 | 153 |          (i.e. buffering disabled)</p> | 
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 | 154 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>connectionTimeout</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 155 |       <p>The number of milliseconds this <strong>Connector</strong> will wait, | 
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 | 156 |       after accepting a connection, for the request URI line to be | 
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 | 157 |       presented.  The default value is infinite (i.e. no timeout).</p> | 
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 | 158 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>executor</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 159 |       <p>A reference to the name in an <a href="executor.html">Executor</a> element. | 
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 | 160 |          If this attribute is enabled, and the named executor exists, the connector will | 
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 | 161 |          use the executor, and all the other thread attributes will be ignored.</p> | 
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 | 162 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>keepAliveTimeout</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 163 |       <p>The number of milliseconds this <strong>Connector</strong> will wait for | 
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 | 164 |        another AJP request before closing the connection. | 
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 | 165 |        The default value is to use the value that has been set for the | 
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 | 166 |        connectionTimeout attribute.</p> | 
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 | 167 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxThreads</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 168 |       <p>The maximum number of request processing threads to be created | 
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 | 169 |       by this <strong>Connector</strong>, which therefore determines the | 
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 | 170 |       maximum number of simultaneous requests that can be handled.  If | 
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 | 171 |       not specified, this attribute is set to 200. If an executor is associated | 
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 | 172 |       with this connector, this attribute is ignored as the connector will  | 
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 | 173 |       execute tasks using the executor rather than an internal thread pool.</p> | 
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 | 174 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>packetSize</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 175 |       <p>This attribute sets the maximum AJP packet size in Bytes. The maximum | 
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 | 176 |       value is 65536. It should be the same as the <code>max_packet_size</code> | 
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 | 177 |       directive configured for mod_jk. Normally it is not necessary to change | 
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 | 178 |       the maximum packet size. Problems with the default value have been | 
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 | 179 |       reported when sending certificates or certificate chains. The default | 
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 | 180 |       value is 8192.</p> | 
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 | 181 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>port</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 182 |       <p>The TCP port number on which this <strong>Connector</strong> | 
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 | 183 |       will create a server socket and await incoming connections.  Your | 
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 | 184 |       operating system will allow only one server application to listen | 
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 | 185 |       to a particular port number on a particular IP address.</p> | 
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 | 186 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>request.secret</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 187 |       <p>Only requests from workers with this secret keyword will be accepted. | 
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 | 188 |       </p> | 
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 | 189 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>request.shutdownEnabled</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 190 |       <p>If true and a secret has been configured, a correctly fomatted AJP | 
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 | 191 |       request (that includes the secret) will shutdown the Tomcat instance | 
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 | 192 |       associated with this connector. This is set to <code>false</code> by | 
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 | 193 |       default.</p> | 
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 | 194 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>request.useSecret</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 195 |       <p>If set to <code>true</code>, then a random value for | 
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 | 196 |       <code>request.secret</code> will be generated. It is for use with | 
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 | 197 |       <code>request.shutdownEnabled</code>. This is set to <code>false</code> | 
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 | 198 |       by default.</p> | 
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 | 199 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>tcpNoDelay</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 200 |       <p>If set to <code>true</code>, the TCP_NO_DELAY option will be | 
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 | 201 |       set on the server socket, which improves performance under most | 
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 | 202 |       circumstances.  This is set to <code>true</code> by default.</p> | 
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 | 203 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>tomcatAuthentication</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 204 |       <p>If set to <code>true</code>, the authetication will be done in Tomcat.  | 
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 | 205 |       Otherwise, the authenticated principal will be propagated from the native | 
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 | 206 |       webaserver and used for authorization in Tomcat.   | 
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 | 207 |       The default value is <code>true</code>.</p> | 
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 | 208 |     </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 209 |  | 
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 | 210 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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 | 211 |  | 
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 | 212 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Nested Components"><strong>Nested Components</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 213 |  | 
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 | 214 |   <p>None at this time.</p> | 
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 | 215 |  | 
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 | 216 | </blockquote></td></tr></table></td></tr><!--FOOTER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><!--PAGE FOOTER--><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font size="-1" color="#525D76"><em> | 
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 | 217 |         Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation | 
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