Hi Luca,

Thanks for sharing workarounds but isn't there a better way to block port
and IPs at OrientDB level using its configuration ? I think this an be
added as functionality as many people would like to block the default REST
layer, only allowing access through function defined REST layer. It will be
good even if the functions an be marked as public (accessible over REST),
private (not accessible over REST, can only be called by other functions),
this is something which Wakanda provides.

Regards,
Gaurav
On Jul 22, 2014 3:26 AM, "Luca Garulli" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gaurav,
> Simon is right. you could also put Apache in form of OrientDB and use
> Apache rules to protect it.
>
> Another solution we adopted is to create a www user with no privilege, but
> executing functions. In your functions you can change user to writer or any
> other user with privilege to work against the database.
>
>
> Lvc@
>
>
>
> On 21 July 2014 21:17, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You should be able to block external access to the port via your external
>> firewall.
>>
>> Some options are:
>>
>> 1. If the server side functions are happening on the same server as
>> OrientDB, make sure that local server side connections happen via the
>> loopback address 127.0.0.1.
>>
>> 2. Another option: set up another LAN IP (ex: 192.168.0.22) for internal
>> access to the database via the REST API. Then set your firewall to block
>> access from the other external IP address.
>>
>> 3. If you're restricted to 1 IP (ex: some cloud systems or VPS), you have
>> a few options.
>> One is, you can use a VPN for internal access.
>>
>> Another is, that you should still be able to create a whitelist of IPs
>> that can access the server on that port.
>> It depends on your OS and your firewall.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:18:43 PM UTC-4, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
>>>
>>> Stefan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for response.
>>> I want to restrict default REST access but want to allow access through
>>> OrientDB server side functions, so blocking port will even block access to
>>> functions defined in OrientDB.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> I want to block calls like
>>> http://<host>:<port>/document/<db>/5:3
>>> http://<host>:<port>/cluster/<db>/demoClass
>>>
>>> Want to still have REST access to functions defined in OrientDB; call
>>> like:
>>> http://<host>:<port>/function/<db>/myFunction/arg1/arg2
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Gaurav
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:17:02 PM UTC+5:30,
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You can block the port that OrientDB runs on.
>>>> You can either do this locally on the machine or limit access to the
>>>> machine if it's running on a sub-net.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>  -Stefán
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:52:51 UTC, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Dexter for info.
>>>>>
>>>>> Building our REST layer is always an option but that does not block
>>>>> the direct DB access. If a user directly connects to DB on bare HTTP/REST,
>>>>> he will be able to access thins on it in his/her browser, I want to block
>>>>> that and only allow access through functions defined at OrientDB end.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again for sharing your idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Gaurav
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:19:33 AM UTC+5:30, Dexter Pratt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In our case, we built our own REST server application to implement
>>>>>> our API - which is responsible for authentication, authorization, and
>>>>>> limits on queries - and it accesses OrientDB.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be cool to do the whole thing in Orient, but our cases
>>>>>> are sufficiently complex that I think we need the separate REST server
>>>>>> layer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll be interested to see how far you can push this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Dexter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dexter Pratt
>>>>>> Director, NDEx project
>>>>>> Ideker Lab UCSD / Cytoscape Consortium
>>>>>> [email protected]  -  [email protected]
>>>>>> www.ndexbio.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions on this?
>>>>>> How to block default HTTP/REST access to DB and only allow access on
>>>>>> HTTP/REST through server side functions ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions will help a lot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Gaurav
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:55:14 PM UTC+5:30, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not want the default HTTP/REST access open for anyone to look
>>>>>> into DB (even logged-in user).
>>>>>> I want to give access on HTTP/REST through server defined functions
>>>>>> only, all other REST access should not be allowed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to achieve it ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Gaurav
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