Add request header for a iplanet web server instance

Hello
Does any one know how can I add a request header for a iplanet web server instance?

I believe you want to add request header :
Adding request header :
AuthTrans fn="set-variable" $headers{"myheader1"}="myheadervalue"
Adding response header
Output fn="set-variable" $srvhdrs{"myresphdr"}="myresphdrvalue"

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Hi Ganesh
Did you check the HTTP Persistent timeout of your server? Check the value which has been set up by default. Try increasing the timeout value and try again.
follow these steps it might solve your problem:
(1)Goto Web Server Administration Server, select the server you want to manage.
(2)Select Preference >> Perfomance Tuning.
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regards
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[email protected]

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>
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/iws60/plugins/servlets/examples/web-apps/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.war
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Hello Dear Friend Urgent Programmer
I'am Alfonso Franco member of Sun Developer
that is requested your questions Look:
1 - Please check out your System is ready to download this iPlanet Web Server 6.1
2- Suppose that you System is ready needs to
configure your setup add/remove program in
you computer that matches with the Web Server
3- if continue the problem error after this
analize very fine the problem and for end
we going to create the exact library and
port in it's Servers with a Java Program Database .
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Here is the log output that i received after deploying in iPlanet web server 6.0 from a war file. It contains the jsps, servlet classes, beans, and ejb classes. I have my ejbs deployed in weblogic server 8.1 Can anybody help? Thankyou.
[31/Mar/2004:11:21:33] info ( 1080): Installing a new configuration
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[31/Mar/2004:11:21:56] info ( 1032): Loading IWSSessionManager by default.
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     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:660)
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Hi,
Already solved the problem, only needed the charset for JAVA.
Anyway for future reference for others re internationalization in iPlanet...
1. Place your resource bundles in <path to your instance>/WEB-INF/classes/
2. Place your i18n tag library (as for me it is taglibs-i18n.tld) in <path to your instance>/WEB-INF/
3. Place your i18n API (as for me it is taglibs-i18n.jar) in <path to your instance>/WEB-INF/lib if it is a jar file, else <path to your instance>/WEB-INF/classes.
4. Add taglib element in your web deployment descriptor file (web.xml):
<taglib>
     <taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/taglibs-i18n.tld</taglib-uri>
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</taglib>
NOTE:
Make sure the DTD reference for your web.xml points to http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd. Old version was http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd. Please update your application to use the new name.
5. Add the following to the JVM classpath in SUNONE:
5.a. <path to your JRE lib>/charsets.jar (for charsets for JAVA)
5.b. <path to your instance>/WEB-INF/classes/ (directory where your resource bundles are)
6. Restart the instance.
This will work either for pre-compiled and uncompiled jsps.
Hope this will help.
my 2 cents,
Eson.

Hi, I am using HP11 and iPlanet web server. When trying to upload files over HTTP using FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" that are bigger than a few Kilobytes i get a 408 error. (client timeout).

Hi, I am using HP11 and iPlanet web server. When trying to upload files over HTTP using FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" that are bigger than a few Kilobytes i get a 408 error. (client timeout). It is as if the server has decided that the client has timed out during the file upload. The default setting is 30 seconds for AcceptTimeout in the magnus.conf file. This should be ample to get the file across, even increasing this to 2 minutes just produces the same error after 2 minutes. Any help appreciated. Apologies if this is not the correct forum for this, I couldn't see one for iPlanet and Web, many thanks, Kieran.

Hi,
You didnt mention which version of IWS. follow these steps.
(1)Goto Web Server Administration Server, select the server you want to manage.
(2)Select Preference >> Perfomance Tuning.
(3)set HTTP Persistent Connection Timeout to your choice (eg 180 sec for three minutes)
(4) Apply changes and restart the server.
*Setting the timeout to a lower value, however, may prevent the transfer of large files as timeout does not refer to the time that the connection has been idle. For example, if you are using a 2400 baud modem, and the request timeout is set to 180 seconds, then the maximum file size that can be transferred before the connection is closed is 432000 bits (2400 multiplied by 180)
Regards
T.Raghulan
[email protected]

Global data in a servlet using iPlanet Web Server

Our configuration is an Applet->Servlet->JNI->C/C++ code.
We have C code that does a number of lengthy mathematical calculations. This C code not only uses its own global variables but, it is also comprised of numerous subroutines that all call each other, reading and writing global C variables as they go. These globals are all isolated to the C code shareable object (.so) library that is included using the LoadLibrary call when the servlet is initialized.
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Our hope is that there is a way to configure the iPlanet Web server such that each new user that starts up a copy of the Applet/Servlet combination will get their own "space" so that they can work independently of any other user. We have at most 20 users of this system and only 3-5 simultaneous users so we should not have a problem with memory or CPU speed.
If anyone has a solution, I would greatly appreciate it!

The C library is shareable. But you don't want it to be shared. That's your question summarized, isn't it?
You probably can't prevent it from being shared, so to prevent multiple use of it you would have to queue up the requests to be done one at a time. WynEaston's suggestion of having the servlet implement SingleThreadModel would help, but I believe the servlet spec allows servers to run multiple copies of a servlet that does that (as opposed to running a single copy in multiple threads).
Your other alternative is to rewrite the math in Java, or at least in some object-oriented language where you don't need global variables (which are the source of your problem). All right, I can already hear you saying "But that wouldn't be as fast!" Maybe not, but that isn't everything. Now you have a problem in queueing theory: do you want a single server that's fast, but jobs have to wait for it, or do you want multiple servers that aren't as fast, but jobs don't have to wait? That's a question you would have to evaluate based on the usage of your site, and it isn't an easy one.

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