Re: Xindice security

Georg Sauer-Limbach <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:51:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xindice.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
kwtan wrote:
> I am concern with my xindice installed. I used xindice.war and deployed it
> using JBoss. Everyone can login the webadmin by going to
> http://localhost:8080/xindice. I have used the basic http basic
> authentication, but I still think that it is not secure. Is there any
> configuration to remove webadmin, or only the server can view the webadmin. 
>
> Thank you.
>   
One obvious way is to require https using the security
configuration in web.xml together with basic auth.

Another is to limit the IP addresses for possible clients
by using org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestFilterValve.

Georg