Re: Solr and security

2007-10-25 Thread Nick Jenkin
You have to remember that Solr is search, not security, its not considered a great idea to have it publicly accessible. If you want a public instance any requests to your solr instance should be "proxied" by some interface between solr and the user. e.g. user requests http://foobar.com/searchapi?k

RE: Solr and security

2007-10-24 Thread Cool Coder
Thanks. I am trying to implement some sort authentication mechanism in Solr. This means each request will have a key which can authenticate whether the request is authentic or not. And do you think, I need to still take care the steps mentioned by you and why?? - BR "Wagner,Harry" <[EMAI

RE: Solr and security

2007-10-24 Thread Norskog, Lance
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:25 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr and security One effective method is to block access to the port Solr runs on. Force application access to come thru the HTTP server, and let it map to the application server (i.e., like

RE: Solr and security

2007-10-24 Thread Wagner,Harry
One effective method is to block access to the port Solr runs on. Force application access to come thru the HTTP server, and let it map to the application server (i.e., like mod_jk does for for Apache & Tomcat). Simple, but effective. Cheers! harry -Original Message- From: Cool Coder [mai