[thelist] jsp homepage

[Michael Kimsal]

Not to butt in too much here, but perhaps you should
just walk away.  If they were your client before, and  they
did something which affects how *you* work for them without
consulting you, there's a problem.  Why can't the other
company that pushed them into jsp take care of the issue
for them?

The 9080 thing is necessary cause the hosting company doesn't
offer jsp full time.  It's an 'add on' and the standard port 80
is still used by something normal (read, not a JSP processing
engine).

In a pinch, just have index.html redirect to the 9080 page.  Remind
them that not everyone will be able to view it.  *some* companies
I've dealt with block out everything except ports 80, 443, mail and
ftp.  Port '9080' wouldn't be visible to these people.  Perhaps
in the minority, but it'll still present a problem in a few cases.

Can't they set up a separate server to handle JSP stuff?

jsp.hostingcompany.com/~accountname

perhaps

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Michael Kimsal
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Michael Galvin wrote:

> For reasons beyond my control, a client site has been made in jsp, and tied
> to a database.  Now the client would like to show some contents of the
> database on the homepage, like the last 5 records added to it.
>
> Because of the craptacular hosting company we have (again, beyond my control
> - the client has some sort of deal with them or something) the jsp portions
> of the site up to now have all resided on a different port (9080).
>
> To make the homepage use the db, what would I need to do?  My thoughts so
> far are:
>
> 1. Use an iframe or ilayer to hold the db-driven portion of the homepage.
> 2. Load index.html as normal, then redirect to an index.jsp on port 9080
> 3. Cry.
>
> At the moment, I'm plumbing for option 3, but I don't think the client will
> pay as much for that service.  How do I get around this without causing
> heartache to me and, more importantly, users?  Client?  Meh.
>
> If someone could explain why I'm forced to go to port 9080, that would be
> good too - perhaps there's some way of 'masking' that?
>
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