On Dec 18, 4:23 pm, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> FC> Rails (deliberately) only allows access to the /rails/info controller
> FC> when running in development mode. The rest of the time the route that
> FC> would allow requests to reach it doesn't exist so going to /rails/info
> FC> will 404.
>

I assume there's a fear that the information could be useful to the
attacker. Also since I don't think anyone ever uses it out of
development there doesn't seem much point in exposing it. Code that
isn't run is code that can't be attacked.

Fred

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