[Cosmo-dev] JSON-RPC considered harmful

Bobby Rullo br at osafoundation.org
Tue Dec 5 22:47:02 PST 2006


That's what I think BCM meant when he said "manual ticket  
authentication"
On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Randy Letness wrote:

> 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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