can't get http from tomcat on guest vm (nat connection) - linux

Question

I have running centos on guest machine (using virtualbox, connection over nat).
And there's tomcat running on this machine on port 8080.
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" address="0.0.0.0"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
There's port forwarding from host to guest
host 2222, guest 22 (ssh)
host 40001, guest 8080
I try to get page from http://localhost:8080
If I connect from host via ssh and do curl localhost:8080 I get an html page.
But if try to get http://localhost:40001 via browser, it becomes infinitely loading.
netstat -an | find "40001" on host machine shows
C:\Users\user>netstat -an | find "40001"
TCP 0.0.0.0:40001 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:30279 127.0.0.1:40001 FIN_WAIT_2
TCP 127.0.0.1:40001 127.0.0.1:30279 CLOSE_WAIT
If I try to telnet on host machine (telnet localhost 40001) the connection is ok.
If I try to get a netstat on guest, I get this
[aegis#localhost ~]$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep tcp
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8005 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8009 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 ::1:25 :::* LISTEN
I can't figure out why telnet from host is working, but I can't get a page via browser. Could you help me, where I've made a mistake in configuration?

Answer 1

At first, I was discaraged because of working "telnet localhost 40001 from host machine".
But there's difference between 22 and 8080 ports.
22 port is opened by default.
8080 port is not.
If you'll have such a problem, you should allow the firewall connection over 8080 port.
E.g., you can execute this statement:
iptables -I INPUT 1 -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT