Transports

 

Transports use Web server plug-ins to serve requests between Web servers and Web containers.

When a Web browser requests an application, the request is passed to the Web server, then along the transport to the Web container.

Transports define the characteristics of the connections between a Web server and an appserver, across which requests for applications are routed.

Administering transports is closely related to administering WAS plug-ins for Web servers. Indeed, without a plug-in configuration, a transport configuration is of little use.

 

The internal transport

The internal HTTP transport allows HTTP requests to be routed to the appserver either directly or indirectly through a Web server plug-in. If directly, the internal HTTP transport serves as a Web server, listening for HTTP requests on ports 9080 and 9443 (HTTP and HTTPS).

For example, use the URL...

http://domain:9080/snoop

...to send requests to the snoop servlet on the local machine over HTTP and...

https://domain:9443/snoop

...to send requests to the snoop servlet on the local machine over HTTPS.

To set ports other than 9080 and 9443, configure virtual host aliases in the Web container configuration.

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