Re: Using encoded slashes safely

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Higgins
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > Bill Higgins wrote: >> We have a servlet that acts as a proxy to other URLs from different >> origins. E.g. via your web app you could get to the Google home page >> via a URL like: >> >> http:/

Using encoded slashes safely

2009-04-27 Thread Bill Higgins
pec. I have more questions on how to respond to this Tomcat behavior, but I'm hoping someone could provide more input on the rationale behind the current fix for CVE-2007-0450 to provide additional context for my other questions. -- Thanks, - Bill Higgins (IBM Rational) --

getting user info in a HTTP Server / Tomcat proxy configuration

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Higgins
We currently have a proxy server that has both Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat installed, with httpd acting as both a proxy for the local Tomcat installation, and also for a number of downstream servers. Currently we use httpd Basic Auth on the proxy box and send the Basic Auth header downstream to

Re: caching principals within Tomcat using Basic Auth and LDAP

2007-05-01 Thread Bill Higgins
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Re: caching principals within Tomcat using Basic Auth and LDAP

2007-04-29 Thread Bill Higgins
FYI, we ended up finding a solution to the problem above, but it required us to use Apache HTTP Server rather than Tomcat to secure the URLs and cache the Basic Auth credentials (since Tomcat apparently cannot do so) and configure Tomcat to respect the other component as the trusted source of prin

caching principals within Tomcat using Basic Auth and LDAP

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Higgins
Hello, I have a web app on Tomcat 5.5 where we're using Basic Auth as our authentication method. We recently did some load testing and noticed that every HTTPS request to one of the secure URLs was resulting in an LDAP auth check. This makes sense because in Basic Auth, the browser send the cred