Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : Domino Tomcat Redirector and SSL

Our users are authenticated with the Domino server first. Tomcat handles any JSP or Servlet requests. It's working great and now we'd like take the next step.

Has anyone enabled SSL between Domino and Tomcat? https is working on the Domino server, but I'm not sure how to get Tomcat to handle https requests for JSP and Servlets. Do I just need to open a port on Tomcat? (There are no issues with http between Domino and Tomcat, it's only https that we need to get working.)

We're using:
Redhat Linux 7.3
Domino 6.01
Apache Tomcat 4.1.18
JDK 1.4.1_01
Domino Tomcat Redirector 1.0.2

This is what I found confusing. Quote from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/ssl-howto.html

"It is important to note that configuring Tomcat to take advantage of secure sockets is usually only necessary when running it as a stand-alone web server. When running Tomcat primarily as a Servlet/JSP container behind another web server, such as Apache or Microsoft IIS, it is usually necessary to configure the primary web server to handle the SSL connections from users. Typically, this server will negotiate all SSL-related functionality, then pass on any requests destined for the Tomcat container only after decrypting those requests. Likewise, Tomcat will return cleartext responses, that will be encrypted before being returned to the user's browser. In this environment, Tomcat knows that communications between the primary web server and the client are taking place over a secure connection (because your application needs to be able to ask about this), but it does not participate in the encryption or decryption itself."

More information:
http://free.tagish.net/domino-tomcat/
http://free.tagish.net/domino-tomcat/20010608.tomcat-redirector.1.0.2.doc.html