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A Valve is a type of component that can be inserted into Tomcat's request/response pipeline in order to add application-specific logic.

A Valve is a type of component that can be inserted into Tomcat's request/response pipeline in order to add application-specific logic in relation to request processing.

There are many kinds of valves dealing with different aspects of the server's operation and functionality, some of which include:

  • Logging
  • Authentication
  • SSL
  • Single Sign On
  • stuck thread detection

For more information, visit the Apache Tomcat documentation

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Exclude Manager from Tomcat Single Sign On

Using JAAS for SSO on a Tomcat server sans Apache. The SSO controls access to several related applications and works great. Recently I started migrating to Maven from Ant and in order to use the Tomcat plugin for Maven I needed to setup the Tomcat…
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How can my WebApp Retrieve Data Set By a Tomcat Valve?

I'm trying to retrieve a value set by a custom Tomcat Valve in a JSF2 backing bean (or servlet). I can't see how to do this and I can't find any examples using Google. BACKGROUND: In my JSF2 web app, I'm required to add a timezone attribute to each…
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Tomcat Rewrite Valve Problem: rewrite.config has no effect

I'm trying to use the Tomcat 9 rewrite Valve in order to redirect certain URLs to my Angular app, which is inside my spring app (very much like in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44847035/15773786). As far as I see it I do have 2 approaches…
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Wrap response in Tomcat custom valve to allow reading the response body

i need to log all response from an application using tomcat ValveBase class. For request i already created a wrapper org.apache.catalina.connector.Request and it logs all request. But for response, wrapper for org.apache.catalina.connector.Response…
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How to change the format of %t option in Apache Tomcat Valve Logger when it has the header {begin}

I've got a pattern that uses pattern option "%{begin}t". Is there a way to change the format of this log? To a format like "dd-MMM-yyyy HH.mm.ss.S" instead of the default.
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Setting cargo.tomcat.valve values in a build.gradle file

What I am trying to do: I want to add a AccessLogValve to the tomcat server.xml so that I can log custom header values. (ref: https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/how-can-i-log-custom-request-headers-using-the-tomcat-access-log-valve/) Problem I am…
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Tomcat access logging through log4j2?

I'm trying to have my own configuration for access logging with log4j2 logging framework in my web application that is using tomcat. While I see there is a Access log valve that can be used for logback, I didn't find any access log valve to override…
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Get the webapp name in the tomcat valve class

I have my custom tomcat Valve extending FormAuthenticator, and same is defined in context.xml of each webapp. I need to read some property files in 'initInternal' of Valve, based on webapp name. i.e. for each webapp different property file. Since…
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How to make TOMCAT accessible only localhost except one app

I'm running TOMCAT server. Due security reasons I have to limit access to localhost only but one app have to be accessible from outside (any IP). I tryed using the valve placed in server.xml but I was only able to block access to specific functions…
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Tomcat valve forcing specific Cache-Control headers

I want to set the Cache-Control and ETag headers correctly in my responses. To do that I have disabled request caching through spring security configuration: httpSecurity.headers().cacheControl().disable(); Then when returning the…
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Custom SAML Authentication Valve in Spring Boot Embedded Tomcat - Don't Apply to Actuator Endpoints

Old Shared Tomcat Method I have a custom SAML 2.0 authentication valve that I use currently in some standalone tomcat web servers to implement single sign on. To implement this, we add the valve to the tomcat server's context.xml, like this (some…
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My custom tomcat valve is not being intercepted

Here is the custom valve class that I wrote.. All it does is to mask password before logging to access log files ... package com.test; import org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve; public class FilteredAccessLogValve extends AccessLogValve { …
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Javascript being loaded twice after enabling rewrite through Tomcat valve

I have a single page application, and I am using the tomcat rewrite valve to forward all the requests other than static resources to my index.html. Following are the contents of my rewrite.config: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}…
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Web application specific form authenticator under Tomcat 6

With your help I have successfully resolved a question that I have asked here. I have developed a custom Tomcat authenticator for the web application, and currently the authenticator and its configuration file are located in the %CATALINA_HOME%\lib\…
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'javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider for class javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory cannot be created' for Tomcat Valve

I have been working on constructing a custom SAML 2.0 based single-sign-on Apache Tomcat valve. During the initialization of this Tomcat valve, at certain server startup runs (does not occur frequently during every server startup) I had been…
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