For the servlet part, the common use is 'alias'. And either you use
CGI or Servlet if you get the DDOS attack, you are out of luck.


Pae



----- Original Message -----
From: "Price, Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:36 AM
Subject: hiding servlet URLs in JSPs


Hi, simple question (I hope):

Does it really matter if someone can see the naked path to a servlet in the
"action" attribute of an HTML <form> tag?  I mean, if I have this form:

<form method="POST" action="./servlet/SomeServlet">
<!-- some input tags go here -->
</form>

anyone can see the URL to my servlet and attempt to send it data directly.
At first I thought that this was a security problem and that I should
obfuscate the path to the servlet somehow, but on second thought it strikes
me that this is no different than someone seeing the path to a CGI script in
a form either.

Any advice?


Erik

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