Thanks. We have our webservers only for the reason that we don't want to have our application servers directly exposed to the internet clients. William made a very good point of having 2 parsers makes it more secure. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mark H. Wood <mwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, another possible advantage is that there are oodles of mod_this, > mod_that for HTTPD, which implement all manner of extensions and > modifications that people have found useful. You may want some of > those extensions or modifications. I haven't seen nearly as many such > add-ons for Tomcat. It may be easiest to get the behavior you need by > getting HTTPD to do some of it and Tomcat the rest. > > So, there are cases in which it's better to put Tomcat behind HTTPD > and other cases in which you gain nothing but complexity by doing > that. Needless complexity is worse than no needless complexity. So > the best choice depends on what you need to accomplish. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx > Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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