the image.
Charlie
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From: Justin Ruthenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 04:27 AM 6/10/2003, you wrote:
Apologies if I'm missing
just put the images in the database serve them from there!
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From: Jens Skripczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Justin Ruthenbeck
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Subject: Re: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory
: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
There is no guaranteed way to stop someone directly access a gif image
via a browser url, because this is how an image is accessed by the
browser itself anyways. The browser just makes a HTTP
Not sure if Catalina.policy will do the trick.
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From: G. Wade Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Unfortunately, this doesn't always work.
In the past
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There is no guaranteed way to stop someone directly access a gif image
via a browser url, because this is how an image is accessed
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From: Justin Ruthenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 04:27 AM 6/10/2003, you wrote:
Apologies if I'm missing the point, but why can't you
store
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the web. They should
be able to access these images through web pages developed as jsp/servlet but should
not be able to access these images displayed on page by copying the image url to the
address bar. Is tomcat
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Subject: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the
web.
They should be able to access these images through web pages developed
Store the images in your database then your jsp can retrieve show them.
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From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Howdy,
That one's
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hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the
web.
They should be able to access these images through web pages developed
restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the
web.
They should be able to access these images through web pages developed
as
jsp/servlet but should not be able to access these images displayed on
page
that's hard for users to guess and use
directly?
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
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From: Syed Nayyer Kamran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:33 PM
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Subject: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:52, John Turner wrote:
Could you just put all of the images under WEB-INF, and use a special
servlet to get them?
The source attribute of the IMG tag would be something like
/servlet/imgGetter?image=someUniqueKey.
The servlet would just retrieve the image from the
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From: Syed Nayyer Kamran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:33 PM
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Subject: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the
web.
They should
: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through the
web.
They should be able to access these images through web pages developed
as
jsp/servlet
ChemInformatics
-Original Message-
From: Syed Nayyer Kamran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urgent : Can we restrict access to a directory in tomcat
hi there,
I want to restrict the user to access the images directly through
There is no guaranteed way to stop someone directly access a gif image
via a browser url, because this is how an image is accessed by the
browser itself anyways. The browser just makes a HTTP get request to
the web-server (in this case tomcat) requesting the URL of the image to
be included in the
There is a very cool JSP/Servlet Filter developed for the Open For
Business project which allows you to control what pages can be directly
accessed via the address bar or other links. In other words, If someone
tries to directly access a non authorized URL, instead of being sent
there by
Without more information about the intended application, this discussion
will continue to become more academic and less directly useful ... but,
really, what's wrong with that? ;)
If your app needs to serve images for non-authenticated users, but you want
to approximate security (as if you're
At 10:29 AM 6/9/2003, Dean Fantham wrote:
The only potential method that can catch most (but not all) of these
would be to create a separate image handling jsp/servlet, say
imageHandler. When imageHanlder servlet recieves an image request it
can check the http-referrer header and ensure that
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