On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Jonathan Moules <
jonathan-lists@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi Andrea,
"The other three have to do with the UI, the common practice is to not
expose the user interface to the web, using a proxy and only allowing
service paths (geoserver/ows, geoserver/wms, geoserver/wfs for example) to
be called from outside, while allowing only access to the UI from specific
IPs."
I have to respectfully but strongly disagree here. I'd certainly say
that's *good* practice, but it's *not* common practice.
It is common in security conscious setups (military and the like). But yes,
those are indeed not common.
To confirm my hypothesis, I just scraped about 650 different
/geoserver/web pages scattered across the internet and I received over five
hundred (500) responses that had a 200 response code. So I'd suggest that
anything that effects the user interface should certainly be considered a
security bug and treated accordingly.
Do not worry, we are doing that, you just don't see any discussion about it
because it's security related (and there is no funding attached, so fixes
won't happen overnight).
Cheers
Andrea
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