AW: Tomcat 7.0.39: Blank pages - cookies containing umplaut causing the request processing beeing stopped

2013-04-13 Thread Keszthelyi Laszlo
thank you for your answers and short clarification. see my answers and further questions inline. >In short: >1. Cookies are usually sent by a single multi-valued "Cookie" header. >If the header has incorrect value, then the client is sending an >incorrect request which has to be rejected as inval

Re: Tomcat access log reveals hack attempt: "HEAD /manager/html HTTP/1.0" 404

2013-04-13 Thread Howard W. Smith, Jr.
On Apr 13, 2013 3:55 PM, "Mark Eggers" wrote: > > On 4/10/2013 5:47 PM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote: >> >> Some legit 404s definitely show up for every enduser that access the webapp >> via mobile device, because PrimeFaces has 2 files that no longer exist in >> the JAR file, and I just reported th

Re: Tomcat access log reveals hack attempt: "HEAD /manager/html HTTP/1.0" 404

2013-04-13 Thread Mark Eggers
On 4/10/2013 5:47 PM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote: Some legit 404s definitely show up for every enduser that access the webapp via mobile device, because PrimeFaces has 2 files that no longer exist in the JAR file, and I just reported this in their Issue Tracker. 127.0.0.1 - - [10/Apr/2013:20:00:

Re: Tomcat 7.0.39: Blank pages - cookies containing umplaut causing the request processing beeing stopped

2013-04-13 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2013/4/13 Keszthelyi Laszlo : > Hi, > > we are facing problems with cookies containing umplaut (or other special > characters), causing the request processing beeing stopped and returning a > blank page. > I know that umlaut characters are forbidden within cookies, except when they > are urlenco

Tomcat 7.0.39: Blank pages - cookies containing umplaut causing the request processing beeing stopped

2013-04-13 Thread Keszthelyi Laszlo
Hi, we are facing problems with cookies containing umplaut (or other special characters), causing the request processing beeing stopped and returning a blank page. I know that umlaut characters are forbidden within cookies, except when they are urlencoded, but the problem arises from third-part

Re: Tomcat access log reveals hack attempt: "HEAD /manager/html HTTP/1.0" 404

2013-04-13 Thread Pïd stèr
On 13 Apr 2013, at 03:33, Esmond Pitt wrote: > I agree with your comment. Adding a second box for Tomcat only means I also > have to configure a firewall between them, whereas using 127.0.0.x for > Tomcat protects it completely. No it doesn't! Obfuscation or indirection != security. HTTPD doesn