On 13/02/2020 09:57, Olivier Jaquemet wrote:
> On 13/02/2020 10:32, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 9:33 AM Olivier Jaquemet wrote:
>>> On 13/02/2020 01:02, Stefan Mayr wrote:
>>>>> - AJP defaults changed to listen the loopback address, require a
>>>>> secret
>>>>>     and to be disabled in the sample server.xml
>>>> [snip]
>>> Am I correct ? Why such a change ? Why no bugzilla issue for proper
>>> tracking and context ?
>>> What are your recommendations regarding AJP connector configuration ?
>> It is obviously best to keep default configurations as stable as
>> possible.
>> But sometimes things have to change ... As a result, you'll indeed
>> need to
>> adjust your server.xml according to your deployment and AJP usage.
> 
> Thank you Rémy for taking the time to answer.
> 
> I understand the need to introduce a "secured by default" AJP
> configuration.
> However, I question one choice that was made for this change : the
> default behavior of the AJP connector to listen only on the loopback
> address.
> 
> This is the change which is, to me, the most questionable one. Because
> to my understanding, any architecture in which a remote Apache HTTPD is
> being used will require a *specific IP address of the current host* to
> be specified in the address attribute of the AJP connector. A specific
> IP address means that the server.xml is no longer agnostic to the
> platfom it is being hosted on. Prior to this, a server.xml file could be
> configured in such way that it would never contain any hard coded value
> related to the current host. With this change it is no longer possible.
> (unless I'm missing something). For large deployment configuration, this
> does seems a bit problematic.
> Do you understand my concern ? Is there any way to address this ?

You can specify "0.0.0.0" (IPv4) or "::" (IPv6) to restore the behaviour
of listening on any address.

Mark

> 
> (The secret attribute is less of a problem, because as stated in the
> documentation there is an alternative : secretRequired can be set fo
> false "when the Connector is used on a trusted network".)
> 
> Make that such a breaking change in a minor maintenance update is quite
> touchy. I have never seen such drastic change in my usage history of
> Tomcat.
> 
> Olivier
> 
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