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

[Olivier Martin (JIRA)]

URLs of resources are not predictable
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                 Key: RF-3586
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-3586
             Project: RichFaces
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 3.2.0, 3.1.5, 3.1.4
            Reporter: Olivier Martin


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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