Hi,

You mean the admin REST API right ? Not the rest/http transport connector ?

Regards
JB

> Le 24 mars 2020 à 17:46, Colm O hEigeartaigh <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to start a discussion on whether it might be a good idea to
> disable the REST API for the AMQ 5.16.0 distribution.
> 
> It makes me a bit uneasy that this is enabled by default. It is secured
> using the same basic auth approach as the web console. The problem here is
> that the API (correctly) lacks XSRF protection. However if the admin user
> browsed to /api and the browser then saves the creds, then it would be
> trivial to implement a XSRF style attack on the API. Instead, it's better
> to secure a REST API with a token.
> 
> As it's a feature that's probably not widely used, it would be better to
> disable it by default IMO.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Colm.

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