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<div>Long term AJP is going away. The Tomcat maintainers have said to move off of mod_jk and then eventually onto HTTP(S) for proxying. Lookup their talk from last year's ApacheCon.</div>
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<div>On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 22:38 +0000, Woolf, Carl wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">My people now, digging a bit deeper, think that some options for AJP on Apache / Tomcat might remain viable:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.0-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison" title="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.0-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.0-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">vs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison" title="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/config/ajp.html#Connector_Comparison</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Looks like the only connector mentioned explicitly in 10.0 that is dropped in 10.1 is the APR/native Connector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In 10.1 “"The native connectors supported with this Tomcat release are:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"> JK 1.2.x with any of the supported servers. See the JK docs for details.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"> mod_proxy on Apache httpd 2.x (included by default in Apache HTTP Server 2.2), with AJP enabled: see the httpd docs for details.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">This could imply that AJP is supported by mod_jk and mod_proxy via the Nio connector classes, though NOT through the Native Connector (deprecated).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I wonder if these supported options would suffice for Shibboleth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks, - Carl</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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