https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56917

            Bug ID: 56917
           Summary: Create a configuration to write relative 302 responses
                    instead of absolute
           Product: Tomcat 8
           Version: trunk
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: ajay.sindw...@gmail.com

Create a Tomcat configuration to force tomcat to write relative location
headers in 301/302 responses instead of absolute location headers.

Purpose:
Today Tomcat always writes an absolute response for redirects per RFC2616
standards.  However as many modern browsers support 302s to relative Locations
as explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_location , our friendly
Tomcat application server should allow configuration to write back 302s in the
more friendly form.

The ripple effect of this where applications choose to use this setting, will
be very good for cpu cycles of web servers and load balancers all over the
world.   This can greatly reduce the need for ProxyPassReverse in the Apache
web server, and also for URL rewriting happenin in physical load balancers.

See this example where another gentleman has been compelled to recompile Tomcat
to achieve the same thing
http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/f5-load-balancer-and-tomcat-302-error

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