Bug 36837

Summary:	Looking for ProxyHandler implementation of Http request
Product:	Tomcat 5	Reporter:	Ratna <ratna>
Component:	Unknown	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	Unknown
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ratna 2005-09-28 10:30:56 UTC

We are looking for the ProxyHandler implementation of HTTP request handler.
This will allow us to configure the Tomcat Http server as proxy server and build
the application for creating the Http Tunnel

This HTTP Tunnel can be used to take over a HTTP connection in order to tunnel
another protocol over it

Comment 1 Yoav Shapira 2005-10-13 06:43:31 UTC

Are you asking for a ProxyHandler to be created?

Comment 2 Ratna 2005-10-13 07:41:29 UTC

We are looking for the HTTP CONNECT handler in the Tomcat HTTP/1.1 server

We are looking for the following RFC implementation with the tomcat server
http://www.web-cache.com/Writings/Internet-Drafts/draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01.txt

Jetty Server supports the proxyHandler
http://www.mortbay.com/software/Jetty.html#Proxy

Comment 3 Mark Thomas 2011-08-11 09:48:57 UTC

This enhancement request has been open for a number of years without any sign of progress.

Requests for this feature do crop up occasionally on the users list but clearly no-one has felt the urge to scratch this particular itch. I am therefore closing this as WONTFIX.

If you would like to see this feature implemented and have a patch or start of a patch then please feel free to re-open this issue and attach your proposed patch.