Hi,

On 20.06.2018 19:02, Eric Norman wrote:
> It seems to me that there a risk that this endpoint could leave the system
> vulnerable to an information disclosure attack.
>
> This is the kind of data that would be useful in refining an attack on the
> server.
I was thinking the same thing. I think this should be protected and of
course the risks of exposing this endpoint should be documented. 
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 7:09 AM Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bertrand,
>>
>> On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 15:38 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been working on a (very simple) module to create a
>>> "capabilities"
>>> endpoint, where a Sling instance can let HTTP clients know about its
>>> version levels, presence or absence of certain services etc.
>>>
>>> It's at https://github.com/apache/sling-whiteboard/tree/master/capabi
>>> lities
>>> and if no one is opposed I'll move it to its own module and make a
>>> first release later this week.
>>>
>>> Feedback is welcome.
>> I took a look and it's nice and compact, I like it :-)
>>
>> My single note is that the CapabilitiesSource's javadoc says that "(the
>> capability) name must be unique in a given Sling instance.". I don't
>> see this enforced or at least checked + logged anywhere. Do you plan to
>> introduce that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>>


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