changing TcpServerEndpoint to HttpServerEndpoint

I have an application (deployed via webstart) that communicates with my server 
via RMI (jeri). The server is deployed in tomcat as a servlet (a URL to get 
the exported proxy) and a JSP page to dynamically generate the JNLP to 
launch. I currently use TcpServerEndpoint to export, as follows:

this.exporter = new BasicJeriExporter(
        TcpServerEndpoint.getInstance(host, port), new BasicILFactory() );
this.impl = new FooImpl(....);
FooService proxy = (FooService) exporter.export(impl);
ByteArrayOutputStream bs = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream ostream = new ObjectOutputStream(bs);
ostream.writeObject(proxy);
ostream.flush();
ostream.close();
proxyBytes = bs.toByteArray();

Later, when the app is launched, it opens http://$host/path/to/getProxy which 
just writes proxyBytes to the output stream, and the client turns that back 
into an object and casts it to FooService. 

All that works fine, except that I currently use port 9000 and some users run 
into trouble because some paranoid (IMO) network admin blocks outgoing tcp 
connections on all ports by default, only opening the ones they know about.

So, I would like to use HttpServerEndpoint and pass all the packets on port 
80, except apache runs on 80. Apache passes some http requests on to tomcat 
(using mod_rewrite proxying) but I cannot see how to setup the 
HttpServerEndpoint. Can it have a path in the http header? ivoke a servlet? 
doPost method passes bytes to jeri? Am I crazy?  I really just want RMI and 
use jeri so I do not need an rmi registry.

Ideas?


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