Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fargusson.Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thank all you guys and those who are paying attention to this topic. to Martin : thanks for reminding me of policy, i didn't know much of that. but given with the same policy file, my web still goes well in windows while it failed in linux, i don't think the problem is about tomcat policy. to Johnny: thanks for your fruitful information, although i did in accord to what http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work conducted, things still dont work out, and I got exhausted guessing how many fold of slash there should be... oh, internet/security/http/URI/browser/tomcat, everything goes wild, way beyond I've expected. so i end up using LocalLink extention (a plugin of mozilla firefox found in the page mentioned above) as a workaround, anyway, my interest is about lucene + inotify, not firefox or tomcat. and about ESE(from your description it seems like a program like beagle), i'm intrigued about how it works around security problem, I'd like to look into it some time. thanks for all you guys' help and kindness again. - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
Johnny's right. Just think of the fun and hijinks malicious web developers could bring to the table if they could reference any file (document or command) they could guess the path to.Add some ajax and the fun get's even better. IMHO, it's a good thing this doesn't work. --David Johnny Kewl wrote: No... what I'm trying to tell you is that if your servlet makes a page with file/// links... microsofts new security is going to stop it from working nothing to do with Tomcat. Other browsers also do it If a page is delivered by Tomcat or any server with file:/// links you going to have problems. Here are somethings to help u http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896204 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work And I just had lots of problems on IE with local file links... ITS A SECURITY THING.. NOT TOMCAT regards Johnny - Original Message - From: "LRS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:45 AM Subject: Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem thanks men, actually I've already tried to add " file:// " prefix explicitly to filePath in A href link, and in mozilla I can see the property of link appear to be " file:///root/test.html " , which is a good sign, huh? but, woo, hate this but, no matter how hard i clicked, the browsers made no reaction, it won't jump to test.html. the same thing happened in opera, so I guess it maybe still have something to with tomcat. I'm gonna work on this after work Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caldarale, Charlie R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fargusson.Alon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
No... what I'm trying to tell you is that if your servlet makes a page with file/// links... microsofts new security is going to stop it from working nothing to do with Tomcat. Other browsers also do it If a page is delivered by Tomcat or any server with file:/// links you going to have problems. Here are somethings to help u http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896204 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work And I just had lots of problems on IE with local file links... ITS A SECURITY THING.. NOT TOMCAT regards Johnny - Original Message - From: "LRS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:45 AM Subject: Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem thanks men, actually I've already tried to add " file:// " prefix explicitly to filePath in A href link, and in mozilla I can see the property of link appear to be " file:///root/test.html " , which is a good sign, huh? but, woo, hate this but, no matter how hard i clicked, the browsers made no reaction, it won't jump to test.html. the same thing happened in opera, so I guess it maybe still have something to with tomcat. I'm gonna work on this after work Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caldarale, Charlie R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fargusson.Alon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
make sure you have granted the correct permissions in your catalina.policy
e.g.
grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/lib/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
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Subject: Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
thanks men, actually I've already tried to add " file:// " prefix
explicitly to filePath in A href link, and in mozilla I can see the
property of link appear to be " file:///root/test.html " , which is a
good sign, huh? but, woo, hate this but, no matter how hard i clicked,
the browsers made no reaction, it won't jump to test.html. the same
thing happened in opera, so I guess it maybe still have something to
with tomcat. I'm gonna work on this after work
Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Caldarale, Charlie R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fargusson.Alon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
thanks men, actually I've already tried to add " file:// " prefix explicitly to filePath in A href link, and in mozilla I can see the property of link appear to be " file:///root/test.html " , which is a good sign, huh? but, woo, hate this but, no matter how hard i clicked, the browsers made no reaction, it won't jump to test.html. the same thing happened in opera, so I guess it maybe still have something to with tomcat. I'm gonna work on this after work Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caldarale, Charlie R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fargusson.Alon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
Ha ha boy of boy are you in for some pain... sorry cant help myself.
Well yes, you need to convert... because MS just didnt have the decency to
ask the linux guys how to do it ;)
Heres a little code for you
if(rawFileName == null) return "";
if(rawFileName.length() == 0) return "";
String s = rawFileName;
s = s.replace('\\','/'); // make it unix compat
s = s.trim();
String firstChar = s.substring(0,1);
if(firstChar.compareTo("/") != 0){
s = "/" + s;
something like that
But this is why I'm talking to you have a look at file/// security
restrictions on XP and later.
They going to get blocked so after all that pain... IE is going to drive
you mad ha ha.
But I got some good news for you go to http://coolese.100free.com/
and download ESE... it does exactly that... its based on lucene and it
allows you to search folders, and or dB's and then navigate the results in a
browser.
Have a look at how it navigates it doesnt use file/// it turns the
directories into a URL and navigates through Tomcat to get around
security issues.
So yes I'm laughing coz I went through all this pain good luck.
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From: "Lu Rui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:45 PM
Subject: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
hi, all,
i'm writing a jsp front-end of a desktop search program in linux
using tomcat 5.5, here is my problem.
say we need a result.jsp which can display the results from
lucene and show the related links, codes like below (hard-coding
for simple, as long as you can get my thougt is okay)
// for winxp
String filePath = new String("c:\\root\\test.html");
// for linux
String filePath = new String("/root/test.html");
testlink
i've test this page both in winxp and linux. in windows,
right-click to check out the property of "testlink" you can see it
goes to " file:///c:/root:/test.html " and left-click then the browser
will open corresponding page, which is exactly what i've been
expecting.
but in linux here comes my trouble, i click "testlink" it
goes to "404 not found", then i check out its property and find it
leads to " http://localhost:8080/root/index.html ", it seems tomcat
took " /root " as a subdir of " /tomcat/webapps " and messed things up,
totally
misunderstood my purpose.
as far as i know path is always a confusing problem of tomcat, but in
linux "/" stands for root of file system, so i'm clearly using an
abusolute path, why tomcat still made such mistake while it works well
in windows with " C:\\root\test.html" ?
and as mentioned above, this link, actually these links,
might go to anywhere in local file system, which makes the trouble
more complex, so i don't think setup Context or docBase or
relative-path could help much, i really need tomcat to be informed
that i'm using
abusolute path and i don't care it goes out of web project and that's
what i want.
plz help me out. thanks. and if what i said make you feel somehow
offended,
it's not my bad feelings just my bad english..
while ( true ) {
help me out;
}
regards.
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RE: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
> From: Lu Rui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
>
> // for winxp
> String filePath = new String("c:\\root\\test.html");
> // for linux
> String filePath = new String("/root/test.html");
>
> testlink
I have not verified the following, but this is what I think is
happening.
An href is a URI, not a file system path. The URI handler in the
Windows JVM detects the "C:" prefix, and forces the protocol for the URI
to be "file:", since that's the only scenario in which "C:" makes any
sense. No such hints are available on Linux, so the path is returned as
is, with no explicit protocol. The HTML RFC requires that such paths be
treated as relative to the protocol and server used to present the page
in which the href occurs, so the _browser_ (not Tomcat) converts that to
"http:///root/test.html".
To make the Linux version work like Windows, use an explicit protocol on
the path (e.g., "file:///root/test.html".
Note also that it's the browser handling the "file:" reference, so I
expect your scheme will only work when the client and server are on the
same machine.
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RE: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
I may be completely miss-understanding, but I think this is a browser trick.
At least in IE7 when I have c: it assumes file:..., but when I don't have c: it
assumes http:... . You will probably need to code file:///root/test.html (I
may have the wrong number of / after file:) to get this to work.
-Original Message-
From: Lu Rui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:46 AM
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: linux + tomcat, some path/link problem
hi, all,
i'm writing a jsp front-end of a desktop search program in linux
using tomcat 5.5, here is my problem.
say we need a result.jsp which can display the results from
lucene and show the related links, codes like below (hard-coding
for simple, as long as you can get my thougt is okay)
// for winxp
String filePath = new String("c:\\root\\test.html");
// for linux
String filePath = new String("/root/test.html");
testlink
i've test this page both in winxp and linux. in windows,
right-click to check out the property of "testlink" you can see it
goes to " file:///c:/root:/test.html " and left-click then the browser
will open corresponding page, which is exactly what i've been
expecting.
but in linux here comes my trouble, i click "testlink" it
goes to "404 not found", then i check out its property and find it
leads to " http://localhost:8080/root/index.html ", it seems tomcat
took " /root " as a subdir of " /tomcat/webapps " and messed things up, totally
misunderstood my purpose.
as far as i know path is always a confusing problem of tomcat, but in
linux "/" stands for root of file system, so i'm clearly using an
abusolute path, why tomcat still made such mistake while it works well
in windows with " C:\\root\test.html" ?
and as mentioned above, this link, actually these links,
might go to anywhere in local file system, which makes the trouble
more complex, so i don't think setup Context or docBase or
relative-path could help much, i really need tomcat to be informed
that i'm using
abusolute path and i don't care it goes out of web project and that's
what i want.
plz help me out. thanks. and if what i said make you feel somehow offended,
it's not my bad feelings just my bad english..
while ( true ) {
help me out;
}
regards.
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