Do us, or rather me, a favor, and take your arrogant, l33t rant somewhere
else.  Believe me, I'm already awake.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Scott Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:26 PM
> To: tomcat-dev; Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Apache Tomcat 4.x JSP source disclosure
> vulnerability
> 
> 
> on 2002/9/24 4:59 AM, "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in all Apache
> > Tomcat 4.x releases (including Tomcat 4.0.4 and Tomcat 
> 4.1.10), which
> > allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the 
> unprocessed source
> > of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static 
> resource which
> > would otherwise have been protected by security constraint, 
> without the
> > need for being properly authenticated.
> 
> Once again...JSP sucks and Velocity is the right way to 
> go...you will never
> have to worry about your container spilling your beans (pun intended).
> 
> Given that Tomcat gets around 100k+ downloads/week...imagine how many
> servers now need to be updated and how much money and time 
> that will cost to
> do so?
> 
>     http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
> 
> Wake up people. Velocity is faster and more secure than JSP 
> will ever be.
> 
> -jon
> 
> 
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