Hi.
On 10.04.2018 15:53, Christopher Schultz wrote:
All,
I've been asked to take some static files we already have on our
(reverse-proxied) web servers and require authentication before allowing
the resources to be fetched by a client.
One way to do that would be to physically (electronically?) move the
files from the web servers to the application servers, either as a part
of the web application itself (tricky due to licensing issues of these
documents) or as a separate set of files in an arbitrary place on the
disk e.g. using <PostResources>.
Before I do that, I was thinking that maybe I could point
<PostResources> at a (private) URL that points back to the location
where these files were already available. I was kind of hoping that
simply doing <PostResources base="http://static/files/here/";
webAppMount="/static" /> or something like that.
It looks like the existing WebResourceSet implementations are all
disk-based resource providers.
It also seems like writing a simple, read-only, "non-listable"
implementation of an HTTPResourceSet might work for me.
So I'm looking for opinions on what I should do, here. I might be able
to hack-together an HttpResourceSet, but it probably won't benefit from
e.g. range-requests (the files I am serving are PDFs, which often
benefit from being able to perform range-requests) and might be fragile.
I could move the files to the application servers, but then I need to
make that a part of my app-server build process and I'd like that to
remain as simple as possible.
Finally, the files cannot go into revision-control due to licensing
restrictions, so we basically have to keep them ... "safe" until they
are deployed.
Any ideas or suggestions?
I know that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail but why not set up a
separate Apache httpd webserver for these things, and have your reverse-proxies direct the
calls there for them ?
Or, use URLRewriteFilter to redirect these calls to wherever you want.
I'm saying that because it doesn't really sound like you want to mix this up too much with
your Java apps..
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