Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 8/9/13 12:17 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: > On 8/9/2013 8:10 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 09/08/2013 15:28, Christopher Schultz wrote: >>> Mark, >>> >>> On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: >

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Eggers
On 8/9/2013 8:10 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 09/08/2013 15:28, Christopher Schultz wrote: Mark, On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: It's too bad it took a researcher a year to figure out that compression of any kind makes encryption (where the

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 8/9/13 11:10 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 09/08/2013 15:28, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Mark, >> >> On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> It's too bad it took a researcher a yea

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Thomas
On 09/08/2013 15:28, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: > >>> It's too bad it took a researcher a year to figure out that >>> compression of any kind makes encryption (where the attacker can >>> force ra

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: > >> It's too bad it took a researcher a year to figure out that >> compression of any kind makes encryption (where the attacker can >> force random prob

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Thomas
On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: > It's too bad it took a researcher a year to figure out that > compression of any kind makes encryption (where the attacker can force > random probing attacks) weak. It's not like SSL+compression and > SSL-compression+compression is that different.

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Martin, On 8/8/13 8:20 PM, Martin Gainty wrote: > as earlier mentioned > > chrome is the only browser that supports compression on SSL > streams Mozilla Firefox had implemented TLS+compression for SPDY requests, and thus was vulnerable. Since CRIM

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David, On 8/8/13 5:47 PM, David Landis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Schultz < > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > >> >> ... and the SSLDisableCompression setting (when set to "false") >> is intended to mitigate the CR

RE: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-08 Thread Martin Gainty
uebernehmen. > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:47:36 -0400 > Subject: Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus > 'SSLDisableCompression' > From: dlan...@gmail.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Schult

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-08 Thread David Landis
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > > ... and the SSLDisableCompression setting (when set to "false") is > intended to mitigate the CRIME attack against SSL/TLS compression. > Feel free to read online all about the CRIME attack. > That was

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-08 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 8/8/13 12:45 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 08/08/2013 18:14, David Landis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if someone could clarify the difference between >> the configuration parameters mentioned in the subject of this >> email or point

Re: Tomcat config question: 'compression' versus 'SSLDisableCompression'

2013-08-08 Thread Mark Thomas
On 08/08/2013 18:14, David Landis wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could clarify the difference between the > configuration parameters mentioned in the subject of this email or point me > to some documentation that explains it? > > Do they both refer to the same type of compression? N

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dick, On 12/15/2009 8:15 AM, steflik wrote: > I'm a little bit hesitant as a number of the students are still struggling > to get their JSP project done. Right now the server is running and the > statements that define where the apps are are right at

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-15 Thread Pid
lik Binghamton University Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: steflik [mailto:stef...@binghamton.edu] Subject: Re: Tomcat Config Question Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into context.xml? It's not - case matters. or is there something else I have to

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-15 Thread David Smith
s. >> Try it and see. >> >> (The manager & host-manager apps preinstalled in Tomcat also use a >> META-INF directory.) >> >> >> p >> >> >> >>> Dick Steflik >>> Binghamton University >>> >>> >>>

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-15 Thread steflik
just an exploded/uncompressed > WAR. Putting a META-INF directory inside the app dir still applies. > Try it and see. > > (The manager & host-manager apps preinstalled in Tomcat also use a > META-INF directory.) > > > p > > >> Dick Steflik >> B

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-15 Thread Pid
META-INF directory.) p Dick Steflik Binghamton University Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: steflik [mailto:stef...@binghamton.edu] Subject: Re: Tomcat Config Question Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into context.xml? It's not - case matters. or is there

RE: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-14 Thread steflik
em to be the appropriate place? Dick Steflik Binghamton University Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: steflik [mailto:stef...@binghamton.edu] >> Subject: Re: Tomcat Config Question >> >> Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into >> context.x

RE: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-14 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: steflik [mailto:stef...@binghamton.edu] > Subject: Re: Tomcat Config Question > > Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into > context.xml? It's not - case matters. > or is there something else I have to do. Reading the doc would be

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-14 Thread Pid
On 14/12/2009 18:46, steflik wrote: Markus, Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into context.xml? or is there something else I have to do. If thats all I have to do do I place them before or after the watched element tag that is already in the context.xml file? There should be

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-14 Thread steflik
Markus, Do I just move the statements out of server.xml and into context.xml? or is there something else I have to do. If thats all I have to do do I place them before or after the watched element tag that is already in the context.xml file? Dick Steflik Markus Schönhaber-10 wrote: > > 09.12

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Crowther
2009/12/9 steflik > > I'm teaching a Web Programming course and am using Tomcat 6 for the > servlet/jsp portion of the course. I have created a context for each > student > in the server.xml file and it seems to work pretty good but if a student > modifies the web.xml file in their application I

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-09 Thread Pid
On 09/12/2009 14:52, Neil Aggarwal wrote: The global conf/context.xml file should have a element for WEB-INF/web.xml; Tomcat should automatically restart the webapp unless you've removed that or disabled deployOnStartup in the element. In my experience, Tomcat has problems reloading webapps

RE: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> The global conf/context.xml file should have a > element for WEB-INF/web.xml; Tomcat should > automatically restart the webapp unless you've removed that > or disabled deployOnStartup in the element. In my experience, Tomcat has problems reloading webapps on occasion. This may work 80% of

RE: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-09 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: steflik [mailto:stef...@binghamton.edu] > Subject: Tomcat Config Question > > I have created a context for each student in the server.xml file Don't do that - very strongly discouraged to have any webapp-specific information in server.xml. The elements should be in conf/Catalina/[hos

Re: Tomcat Config Question

2009-12-09 Thread Markus Schönhaber
09.12.2009 15:31, steflik: > I'm teaching a Web Programming course and am using Tomcat 6 for the > servlet/jsp portion of the course. I have created a context for each student > in the server.xml file and it seems to work pretty good but if a student > modifies the web.xml file in their applicatio