Interesting... So, why then is it returning 403-forbidden for
something that doesn't exist?

Anyone knows/remembers the reasoning?


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
> since it returns 403 also on non-existent resources, an attacker wouldn't
> know whether the resource he requested actually exists.
>
> Am 10.11.2009 17:23 schrieb Andreas Andreou:
>>
>> hmm, i'd argue it needs to return a 404 error though, so as not to give
>> attackers a way to know which libraries/jars/resources exist...
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> ust tested it in trunk, works as expected: Trying to access templates and
>>> other stuff, as well as directory listings result in a 403. An
>>> integration
>>> test making sure that the protection isn't accidentally removed again
>>> would
>>> be nice though.
>>>
>>> Uli
>>>
>>> Am 10.11.2009 11:28 schrieb Massimo Lusetti:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Author: robertdzeigler
>>>>> Date: Mon Nov  9 17:23:10 2009
>>>>> New Revision: 834151
>>>>>
>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=834151&view=rev
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> TAP5-815: Asset dispatcher allows any file inside the webapp visible
>>>>> and
>>>>> downloadable (5.2 branch)
>>>>
>>>> Looking for testing this one soon but thanks for the work! Especially
>>>> for (back)porting to the other two dev branch.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
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