How does a proxy servlet work and how to set up

Question

I'm a newbie to Weblogic, using 8.1SP3. I came across documentation about a Proxy Servlet that allow weblogic to proxy requests to another web server. This is the scenerio I'm trying to set up. I want to create a weblogic module that proxies to yahoo.com. The communications between weblogic and yahoo may not be SSL, but from weblogic back to my client is SSL. I created a yahoo directory under user-projects\domains\mydomain. I created a WEB-INF\web.xml with the following based on the documentation:
          <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
          "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
          "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">
          <web-app>
          <servlet>
          <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>weblogic.servlet.proxy.HttpProxyServlet
          </servlet-class>
          <init-param>
          <param-name>redirectURL</param-name>
          <param-value>http://www.yahoo.com:80</param-value>
          </init-param>
          </servlet>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>
          </web-app>
          I deploy the yahoo directory from the admin console and when I go to https://localhost:7002/
          I would expect to see the www.yahoo.com page. Am I missing something. Is this not what the proxy servlet is for, is the above possible? Any help and suggestions appreciated.
          --Sam                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Answer 1

Hey Anders, it's working....
          Believe it or not, all I did after adding the weblogic.xml was restart the bea server; even though I had redeployed the module.
          So, thank you very much for your patience and suggestions.
          --Sam