https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61910
Bug ID: 61910
Summary: Description for allowLinking is innacurate
Product: Tomcat 8
Version: 8.5.x-trunk
Hardware: PC
OS: Mac OS X 10.1
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Documentation
Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
Reporter: mo...@ohrt.com
Target Milestone: ----
The description for allowLinking is inaccurate on this page:
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html#Attributes
"If the value of this flag is true, symlinks will be allowed inside the web
application, pointing to resources outside the web application base path. If
not specified, the default value of the flag is false."
This makes an assumption that symlinks to resources *inside* the web
application base path should work, regardless of this flag. However, they do
not. NO symlinks work unless the allowLinking flag is set, whether they fall
inside our outside the application base path.
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