Re: Regarding the "localhostips" property in deployment
Re: Regarding the "localhostips" property in deployment
- Subject: Re: Regarding the "localhostips" property in deployment
- From: Paul Hoadley via Webobjects-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 11:35:52 +0930
- Feedback-id: i671c40f3:Fastmail
On 5 May 2025, at 16:38, Hugi Thordarson via Webobjects-dev
<email@hidden> wrote:
> quick question: When setting up a deployment environment you usually have to
> set the property er.extensions.WOHostUtilities.localhostips (usually in
> /etc/WebObjects/Properties) to ensure your applications accept incoming admin
> requests from wotaskd.
Is this only in the setting where wotaskd is on a different host? Because I've
never done this, though we only deploy with wotaskd+JavaMonitor on the host
running the app instances.
> I'm still no security expert, so I'm just checking if anyone sees this as a
> bad idea/security issue, or if this can be safely kept and merged into Wonder.
I'm no security expert either, but it seems reasonable as a default that you
can override. What happens in the setting where someone doesn't currently set
the property, though? That is, what default behaviour will you be changing, and
how astonishing will this be?
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Paul Hoadley
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