Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-22 Thread Janne Jalkanen
On Jun 19, 2008, at 22:39 , Andrew Jaquith wrote: Simon -- I've been gently tweaking Janne from time to time about externalizing the URL constructors in a similar manner to what you describe, although the use I had in mind wasn't related to session IDs. I'm still opposed to the idea

Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-19 Thread Simon Kitching
Olaf Kock schrieb: Simon Kitching schrieb: By the way, I don't see cookies as a lot more secure. The cookie text is also sent in plain text in both the request and response bodies. There aren't many cases where someone can intercept the url but not the cookies. But thanks for the

Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-19 Thread Janne Jalkanen
Just for the record (in case someone else wants to do this), enabling url rewriting support seems to be fairly easy. I have: * added a servlet filter which stores the HttpServletResponse in a thread-local * implemented a custom URLConstructor (subclassing DefaultURLConstructor) which overrides

Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Jaquith
Simon -- I've been gently tweaking Janne from time to time about externalizing the URL constructors in a similar manner to what you describe, although the use I had in mind wasn't related to session IDs. Something like http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ would do nicely, and would certainly

Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-18 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Andrew, Many thanks for the quick answer. Yes I did mean encoding the session id in the url (http://host/foo.jsp;jsessionid=123?page=Main;). We want to disable cookies in our dev environment so that we can log into the same app multiple times from the same browser; this makes testing some

Re: url rewriting supported?

2008-06-18 Thread Olaf Kock
Simon Kitching schrieb: By the way, I don't see cookies as a lot more secure. The cookie text is also sent in plain text in both the request and response bodies. There aren't many cases where someone can intercept the url but not the cookies. But thanks for the reference to OWASP; I'll have a