Hi Romek

Could you check the camel-jetty component to see what needs to be
changed to support the issue with localhost?
So we could try to fix the issue if possible.

/Claus Ibsen
Apache Camel Committer
Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Roman Kalukiewicz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Gert!
>
> In fact 0.0.0.0 address is specified in (RFC 1700) and it is correct.
> On IPv6 network similar address is 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 (RFC 2373). Both of
> them are used in C as constants INADDR_ANY and IN6ADDR_ANY (their
> value are zeros).
>
> Of course I agree that if you specify localhost, it should bind to
> local interface and so on in case of jetty, but MINA behaves OK.
>
> Romek
>
> 2008/11/14 Trevv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>
>> Gert Vanthienen wrote:
>>>
>>> In the current implementation, camel-jetty already binds to all local
>>> interfaces, even if you use localhost in the uri.
>>
>> Hmm, that sounds like a security vulnerability.  When people specify
>> that a serversocket should be bound to localhost, often it's because
>> they are exposing a service that hasn't been "hardened" for exposure
>> to the hostile Internet.
>>
>> If Camel is allowing connections from the outside world, when the
>> person who defined the route indicated that connections should only
>> be allowed from localhost... that's probably a bad idea.
>>
>>
>> Are you experiencing any problems with this?
>>
>> I'm not experiencing a problem with the Jetty consumer, because I'm
>> using it only in a "test harness," on a virtual machine which the
>> world can't access.
>>
>> The problem I'm experiencing is with the Mina consumer: if I specify
>> localhost, then clients can't connect to my server unless they are
>> local clients.  This is actually the correct behavior when you specify
>> localhost, but this isn't the behavior that I want.  The behavior
>> that I want is the behavior that you get if you pass null as the
>> address argument of the InetSocketAddress constructor, at line
>> #124 of MinaComponent.java version 1.5.0.
>>
>> I have temporarily solved my problem by specifying 0.0.0.0 instead
>> of localhost.  It's working, but it's a kluge, because: (1) Sun's
>> javadoc never says that you can use "0.0.0.0" as a substitute for
>> null; and (2) I suspect that it may not work with IPv6.
>>
>> My recommendations, for both Jetty and Mina consumers:
>>
>> DO allow the user to specify the wildcard address.
>>
>> DO NOT bind to the wildcard address, when the user specifies localhost.
>> --
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>> http://www.nabble.com/Jetty-and-Mina%3A-how-to-bind-to-%22anylocal%22-AKA-%22wildcard%22-address--tp20475674s22882p20494645.html
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>>
>>
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