October 2007
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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The Communication Sequence of an HTTP Request
To configure and run a Tomcat cluster, you need to set up more than just Tomcat. For example, you need to provide a facility so that requests coming into Tomcat are spread across multiple instances. This involves software that runs in addition to your Tomcat installations.
To identify the points in the system where clustering features may be implemented to distribute the requests, let's take a look at the steps of the average HTTP client request. Figure 10-1 shows a typical nonclustered server running Apache httpd, mod_proxy, and Tomcat. The figure shows the steps of one HTTP client's request through the system.
Figure 10-1. How one HTTP request uses a typical nonclustered server
We show using mod_proxy for the connector module from
Apache httpd to Tomcat because depending on how your web
application is written, you may not need to use Apache httpd or
mod_proxy to set up and use a Tomcat cluster. We show these
components so that you can see how using them affects the HTTP request communication
sequence and which types of clustering features you may want to use. If you use Apache
httpd, httpd is your web server. If you use
Tomcat standalone, Tomcat is your web server.
Any user's HTTP request to the server follows these steps:
Local DNS request. The user's web browser attempts to resolve the web site's IP address from its name via a DNS lookup ...
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