Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Paul Mendelson
I recently installed Tomacat 6.0 and see that I now need to make my web application privalaged in order to use InvokerServlet to allow users to execute arbitrary servlets. This seems to continue a trend that may eventually result in Invoker being widthdrawn. My question is why is allowing

Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Peter Kennard
I am a newbee here but as a work around, I would think you could have a master servlet and it could scan and load all the servlets in the directory into a map, and then dispatch requests to them from /* (having them properly initialized in another question) I would be interested in the

Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Funk
http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#evil -Tim Paul Mendelson wrote: I recently installed Tomacat 6.0 and see that I now need to make my web application privalaged in order to use InvokerServlet to allow users to execute arbitrary servlets. This seems to continue a trend that may

Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Paul Mendelson
Tim Funk wrote: http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#evil -Tim Paul Mendelson wrote: I recently installed Tomacat 6.0 and see that I now need to make my web application privalaged in order to use InvokerServlet to allow users to execute arbitrary servlets. This seems to continue a trend

RE: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Lucia
-Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:39 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#evil Keep in mind this opens with This is opinions

Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

2007-03-14 Thread Peter Kennard
At 20:38 3/14/2007, you wrote: http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#evil -Tim All very good points escpecially since it will load classes outside the webapps sandbox. Definately evil. What I would probably do in the large # of servlets situation for a single webapp during development is