[Cosmo-dev] JSON-RPC considered harmful

Randy Letness randy at osafoundation.org
Tue Dec 5 22:37:38 PST 2006


Randy Letness wrote:
>
> Yeah that's what I was thinking too, require the ticket as part of the 
> rpc call, and do a check as part of the rpc impl.  With the way things 
> work now, isn't there still a problem of "hijacking" a collection 
> (provide valid creds to access /cosmo/JSON-RPC, but specify collection 
> in the body thats not yours)?
>

Actually what about using the CosmoSecurityManager to get the auth info 
(user or ticket), and do the check inside all the rpc methods?

-Randy


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