On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 15:57, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > Part of the problem with this valve is that regex matching is such a > (IMHO) bizarre choice for IP address matching. IP addresses have a > structure which is very unlike text, and the customary and expected > matches take a bit of finagling to do in regexes. > > I should try writing netmask and CIDR address matchers. >
I'm doing just that at the moment :p https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51953 > Likewise the hostname valve. Domain names also are structured, and > people who have just discovered the valve may be expecting quite a > different type of matching than what they get. I had to read the > documentation very slowly and carefully before I could get the > customary match styles out of my head. > > Again, I should try writing a DNS-style globber. It might be fun. > (But don't hold your breath waiting for it.) > Ideally, all of Apache's "allow from" and "deny from" (along with Order while we are at it) could/should be implemented. I'm starting with the most simple case of all. It'll be fun to implement, say, 10., .mydomain.com and such... -- Francis Galiegue ONE2TEAM Ingénieur système Mob : +33 (0) 683 877 875 Tel : +33 (0) 178 945 552 f...@one2team.com 40 avenue Raymond Poincaré 75116 Paris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
