[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (RF-3586) URLs of resources are not predictable

[Nick Belaevski (JIRA)]

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Nick Belaevski commented on RF-3586:
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This solution will work for session-aware clusters, i.e. for configurations when all requests from particular client are handled by particular cluster node. 

> URLs of resources are not predictable
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RF-3586
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-3586
>             Project: RichFaces
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: docs updated, planning_all
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.2.0
>            Reporter: Olivier Martin
>            Assignee: Tsikhon Kuprevich
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 3.3.0
>
>   Original Estimate: 1 day, 4 hours
>  Remaining Estimate: 1 day, 4 hours
>
> The way RichFaces generates URLs for the scripts and styles is incompatible with security restrictions in a corporate world.
> When applications are deployed in production, the list of the URLs it uses has to be known : the Firewalls are configured with this "white-list" and a "black-list" forbidding URLs with ".." characters.
> For instance the following URL has several problems :
> a4j_3_1_5.GAcss/table.xcss/DATB/eAF7P..bLgAIQwM..faces
> * The prefix "a4j_3_1_5.GA" can be configured, but usually the projects don't bother to do it, thus this part is gonna change with each RichFaces release
> * The part "eAF7P..bLgAIQwM." is unpredictable, it depends on the value of the object SkinImpl.hashcode()  ?!!
> * The part "eAF7P..bLgAIQwM." contains ".."' characters
> Overall we had to bypass the usual security restrictions to put an application in production, this is unacceptable.

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