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Imagine the following setup:

Here, a client wants to call an application - it does that by calling the Ceptor Gateway which is a reverse proxy that all requests travel through. Ceptor gateway then typically starts by establishing a session if not already present, and then examines the request information - it looks at attributes like hostname, URL Path and/or query parameters - based upon these attributes, and the configuration of the gateway, it selects a destination to transmit the request to.

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Inside the gateway, a number of steps are performed, the actual steps vary, but typically it is similar to this:

Listener

Requests are received via a Listener - the listener listens for incoming requests using one of the protocols HTTP, HTTPS or AJP - the configuration for the listener also decides SSL/TLS settings, and decides if the user should be prompted for a client certificate. A gateway can have multiple different listeners on any combination of IP address and port.

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