Hello Andrea.
Thank you for the quick response. I have posted an issue in JIRA.
Kind regards,
On 11 September 2017 at 16:32, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:51 PM, João Gouveia | Horus <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am testing GeoServer with a client I am developing and I have a
>> question regarding security.
>> According to the documentation, setting the Catalog mode to Challenge
>> should expose the layers and make the server send a 401 error in case the
>> credentials are not sent. This is not what is happening with an insert or
>> update transactions. Only the delete transaction sends a 401. Both insert
>> and update send a 200 with an ExceptionReport xml. This is problematic
>> because it makes it hard to develop a client that will request
>> authentication. Especially because the exception code is simply a
>> "InvalidParameterValue".
>>
>> Is this a design decision or is it a bug?
>>
>
> It is not a design decision for sure, sounds more like an accident of
> implementation, likely happening
> because the code cannot even parse the XML in those conditions (the parser
> being driven by the schema,
> and likely not able to get to the schema) and the original security
> exception is
> somehow replaced. But it's just a guess.
>
> Feel free to open a ticket, with steps to reproduce.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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>
> Andrea Aime
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