Hi -
I'm running Apache Tomcat Version 7.0.29. I have inserted a Remote
Address filter into server.xml inside of the <Host> tag. It is not blocking
addresses that are not in <Allow>.
I am using the Remote Address filter because I want to allow access
only to addresses in our institution's community. This is a large
institution and we have 4 or 5 class B address ranges, maybe 10 class Cs,
and a number of broken ranges. The regular expression runs to 8181
characters without doubling up on \. It does, however, work in a test Java
class that I wrote, correctly allowing and disallowing a test group of
addresses.
One question I have is that the example in
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/filter.html#Remote_Address_Filter
has single backslashes, but in order to make the pattern work in my test
class, I had to double up on the slashes. I took a look at the
RequestFilter code, and it looks like the pattern string is just passed to
Pattern.compile, so the pattern in the filter should need double slashes.
I've tried it both ways and neither worked.
Anybody have any idea about what might be going wrong?
Garey Mills
Library Systems Office
UC Berkeley
