On 31 Oct 2011, at 18:25, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

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> Richardo,
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> On 10/31/2011 12:33 PM, Ricardo Bayley wrote:
>> You are right. What I intend to do is prevent hot linking.
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> We get what you are trying to do: you'll just have to write your own
> code to do it. Tomcat ships with a Filter called RequestFilter that
> you can subclass if you need that kind of flexibility. If you don't
> need such flexibility, just write it yourself: it's pretty much a
> one-liner.

It'll still be fragile and open to exploitation. An AJAX call can set
any request headers it likes. You be better off using authentication
if you want anything more than a casual defence.


p


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>> My webapp, is working as a REST webservice.
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>> So I would like to have tomcat reply only when requests come from
>> specific sites.
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> You mean when the requests are referred from specific sites, right?
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> - -chris
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