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Ferry Huberts commented on FELIX-3811:
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Java can't really bind to an interface, only to an address-port pair.
In the presence of duplicates (which can really happen) this will fail, in the
sense that you will not know to which interface the socket will be bound.
I have run into this multiple times.
If there is a true solution I'd be happy to hear it :-)
> http service should allow the interfaces bound to be configured
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>
> Key: FELIX-3811
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3811
> Project: Felix
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Lightweight HTTP Service
> Reporter: Ed Schaller
> Assignee: Ken Gilmer
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch
> Attachments: httplite.bind.patch
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> As I primarily use the lightweight http service to debug using the webconsole
> it would be nice to only bind it to the local interface to limit access to
> the webconsole. This could be done by providing a configuration paramater to
> specify the host address to bind to and could also be useful for those
> running lightweight http on multihomed hosts.
> I have created a patch against 0.1.5-SNAPSHOT that includes such
> functionality. It uses org.apache.felix.http.host as the configuration key
> but this could be changed. The semantics of what should be done when the host
> specified cannot be resolved (eg: InetAddress.getByName() fails) may also be
> worth changing. Presently it just binds to all interfaces if it is unable to
> resolve/parse the address. Failing closed would be better in my opinion but
> might not be the most intuitive.
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