Forwarding requests between contexts in Tomcat

Question

I\'d like to be able to do cross-context request forwarding in Tomcat with the Tuckey URLRewrite filter. For example, I\'d like to be able to route an incoming request with an

Answer 1

After the comments I come do this possible conclusion:

I think you are mixing the concepts of a reverse proxy with cross-context. Cross-context is method to share data between two web-applications within the same application server. A reverse-proxy like 'Apache http' can rewrite a url to pass it to a certain server behind it, effectively hiding any unwanted parts or performing other operations like load-balancing.

The infrastructure would be: client --> reverse proxy --> application server