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Kevin Minder updated KNOX-48:
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    Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
        Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
             Assignee: Kevin Minder
    
> Cluster topology must not be exposed in datanode redirect query parameters
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>                 Key: KNOX-48
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-48
>             Project: Apache Knox
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Server
>    Affects Versions: 0.2.0
>            Reporter: Kevin Minder
>            Assignee: Kevin Minder
>             Fix For: 0.4.0
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> From BUG-4326
> Currently when the Location header in a redirect from WebHDFS is rewritten to 
> store the host and port of the datanode in user visible query parameters. 
> These values should not be user visible as this exposes the topology of the 
> Hadoop cluster. These values should be encrypted. The suggestion is to 
> encrypt and base64 encode a set query params that are placed on the user 
> visible URL with a special query param. For example:
> ...?op=CREATE&_=<base64>
> where the <based64> would decode and decrypt into something like
> datanode.host=<hostname>&datanode.port=<port>
> The example exposed param name (i.e. '_') and hidden params (i.e. 
> datanode.host, datanode.port) are not prescriptive. 
> Note: jQuery appears to add an '_' query param as a workaround to an IE 
> caching issue. Should probably pick something else. An alternate proposal is 
> to encrypt the entire query string as suggested here
> http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/33350/Encrypting-Query-Strings

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