Rahul Thakur wrote:
Hey guys,
Some quick notes on the security for XML RPC interface. This is what I
am thinking...
Have an AuthenticatedXmlRpcService component that services the xml rpc
requests. The first request from a client to the service is a request
for authentication. A successful authentication returns an
authentication Token, which is passed along with subsequent requests by
the client. A Token can go stale (configurable time period?) if there
were not requests detected for it. Also, we could have a service that
answers any polling requests and keeps a Token 'alive'.
How about using HTTP and Redback for security? We can make the XML-RPC
server listen on localhost:8000 only and then make a servlet that is
proxying to localhost:8000/xml-rpc.
The proxying servlet should come after a Redback security filter. I made
a servlet like that once acting as a facade for a Subversion repository
which I think I added to Plexus (aka the kitchen sink), if not I can dig
it up for you.
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Trygve
