On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:13:46 -0400 "Fuad Efendi" <f...@efendi.ca> wrote:
> > You could set a firewall that forbid any connection to your > > Solr's server port to everyone, except the computer that host > > your application that connect to Solr. > > So, only your application will be able to connect to Solr. > > > I believe firewalling is the only possible solution since SOLR > doesn't use cookies/sessionIDs > > However, 'firewall' can be implemented as an Apache HTTPD Server > (or any other front-end configured to authenticate users). (you > can even configure CISCO PIX (etc.) Firewall to authenticate > users.) [...] If you are on Linux, or another system that supports it, iptable rules are quite easy to set up to restrict access only to desired Solr client(s). Regards, Gora