JAX-RS server only responds to queries to/from http://localhost

I'm not sure if this is a problem with the Tika JAX-RS server, or with how it uses CXF under the hood. Anyway:

I have a large text extraction job (10-15 million documents) that I'm using the web service for. It would be nice to be able to distribute this horizontally across multiple nodes to speed up the processing. I had thought to have a job queue with a couple consumers, farming out PUT requests across several Tika web service endpoints.

But the JAX-RS web service will only respond to queries made to http://localhost:9998/tika.

I can't call http://hostname:9998/tika – even if it's still a local operation.

Here is a list of things I've tried:

• I changed line 89 of TikaServerCLI.java to compute the name of the host at runtime. No go: the server starts up, and immediately terminates.
• I changed line 89 of TikaServerCLI.java to be a hostname (not a FQDN), and re-compiled:
  • mvn compile -rf :tika-server compiles successfully. Start up the server, and it terminates, just like when I tried to compute the hostname at runtime
  • mvn install from the topmost Tika directory gets the service responding to both http://hostname:9998/tika and http://hostname.domain.net:9998/tika (Seemed weird, this is why I was thinking it was further up the chain in CXF?)

In a perfect world:

1. The server should respond to any valid calls that make sense:
   • 127.0.0.1
   • localhost
   • hostname
   • host.domain.tld
   • ip_address
2. A hostname invocation parameter could be used to limit what the service responds to when it's started up. (A very optional, nice-to-have.)