Tomcat sends status code 400 during re-deployment

Hello, this is a follow-up to my yesterday's post (Displaying a maintenance page during re-deployments via manager app). In order to work around the problem I decided to use Ant's scp and sshexec tasks instead of the Manager application. I use the autoDeploy="true" feature so that I can sim

Displaying a maintenance page during re-deployments via manager app

Hello, I'm using Tomcat 5.5 + Apache 2 + mod_jk and the Tomcat Ant tasks to deploy my applications via the Tomcat Manager. I want the Apache to display a maintenance message during re-deployments. When the application is undeployed, everything works fine. Tomcat sends a 503 error code and Apache