I like the simplicity, the simple configurability, ... well everything.

+1 for me

Fabien

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Fabian Lange wrote:
> Hi *,
> Interesting that there are so many replies.
> Ill reply to the initial posting, cause I feel that I can't agree on any
> other.
> 
> My proposal is: make symfony safe for people that don't know what they are
> doing.
> I say that because:
>   http://www.google.de/search?q=inurl:frontend_dev.php
> 
> I just assume that everything was deployed to the live system.
> As this should work also for all servers it shouldn't be a .htaccess based
> solution.
> 
> To follow my proposal, and make it really simple:
> 
> Add to all non production controllers:
> 
> <?php
> //This prevents accidental access to non production frontends
> if (!in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1')))
> {
>   echo('Your IP '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].' is not in set of allowed IPs.');
>   echo('Check '.__FILE__.' For more information. ');
>   die();
> }
> ?>
> 
> This is:
>  - easy: No config required. Works by default 100% secure.
>  - extensible: If devs want to keep it, its easy to understand where to add
> new ips.
>  - performant: Absolutely no impact on the production controller (compared
> with apache and filter rules)
>  - removable: remove those 7 lines and you have removed the whole default
> protection
>  - dummy safe: you can deploy it to server without looking at it and it is
> safe.
> 
> This does NOT provide complete security against "attacks". Lets say you
> added your company proxy IP, a colleague not working on this project could
> get access to it as well.
> However it adds a lot of security for random attack attempts.
> 
> .: Fabian
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Ian P. Christian
> Sent: Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 14:30
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [symfony-devs] RFC - securing _dev files
> 
> 
> I want to hear from you all as to what you think the best method for 
> securing the default _dev files - I will not suggset anythign now, as I 
> want to present a  blank slate.
> 
> I will implement the solution we finally agree on.
> Thoes that want to help please let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 
> 


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