Tyler Erickson ha scritto:
> Andrea,
> 
> Sorry for the delayed reply... I just returned to the office.
> 
> How about the following (purple pill) approach:
> c) prompt the user to authenticate (or reply with a 401 error) if a user 
> tries to read a protected data layer; and list the data in the 
> capabilities document only when the user is authenticated and authorized
> 
> That way, an outside user would not be able to determine the name of the 
> layer for a brute force attack.

Well, with a brute force attack they'll eventually be able to, but given
we have no limits to the number of chars in the layer name, it's 
actually quite hard to spot.

Seems a reasonable compromise to me. What do other people think?
Cheers
Andrea

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