Re: [fossil-users] scgi for Linux

2010-06-02 Thread Owen Shepherd
On 2 June 2010 18:11, Joshua Paine wrote: > Only 127.0.0.1 is privileged, right? So can we just not trust > X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 no matter who says it, and not worry if > X-Forwarded-For is abused otherwise? > No. Fossil keys its login cookies off the user's IP address. If the user can pr

[fossil-users] FossilScope - a fossil repository monitor

2010-06-02 Thread James Bremner
I have released a windows console application, FossilScope, to get alerts on new activity by others on any of your fossil repositories. The fossil timeline shows everything that happens in one repository. But it can be hard to spot activity by other people, when it is scattered over several dif

Re: [fossil-users] scgi for Linux

2010-06-02 Thread Joshua Paine
Only 127.0.0.1 is privileged, right? So can we just not trust X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 no matter who says it, and not worry if X-Forwarded-For is abused otherwise? -- Joshua Paine LetterBlock: Web applications built with joy http://letterblock.com/ 301-576-1920 ___

Re: [fossil-users] scgi for Linux (was: Fossil behind proxy)

2010-06-02 Thread Kyle McKay
On Jun 2, 2010, at 05:00, June 1, 2010 05:17:39 PDT, Richard Hipp wrote: > [7] In the odd case that I actually convinced you that http proxying > is a > better solution than SCGI for integrating a fossil repo into a larger > website, adding support for "X-Forwarded-For" is just a few extra > l

Re: [fossil-users] scgi for Linux (was: Fossil behind proxy)

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Ruizendaal
DRH wrote: > Here again, we need to be mindful of security. Miscreants can easily forge > an x-forwarded-for: line in an HTTP request and in the default > configuration > Fossil allows requests requests from 127.0.0.1 to bypass the login > mechanism. (That login bypass for 127.0.0.1 makes the "f