Sounds good! Pointers would be great, if you have it handy :-)
TIA,
Rahul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trygve Laugstøl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <continuum-dev@maven.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: XML RPC security
Rahul Thakur wrote:
Hey guys,
Some quick notes on the security for XML RPC interface. This is what
I am thinking...
Have an AuthenticatedXmlRpcService component that services the xml
rpc requests. The first request from a client to the service is a
request for authentication. A successful authentication returns an
authentication Token, which is passed along with subsequent requests
by the client. A Token can go stale (configurable time period?) if
there were not requests detected for it. Also, we could have a
service that answers any polling requests and keeps a Token 'alive'.
How about using HTTP and Redback for security? We can make the XML-RPC
server listen on localhost:8000 only and then make a servlet that is
proxying to localhost:8000/xml-rpc.
The proxying servlet should come after a Redback security filter. I
made a servlet like that once acting as a facade for a Subversion
repository which I think I added to Plexus (aka the kitchen sink), if
not I can dig it up for you.
--
Trygve
