Thanks for the info Ryan & Walter,
We're looking into invariants and handler logic as you suggest, Karen On Friday 25 January 2008 15:55:09 Ryan McKinley wrote: > Karen Loughran wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there any interest/activity for SOLR to provide a restricted view of > > an index, making only certain fields available/public, depending on the > > identity of the requesting client ? Certain information in our index is > > confidential and should only be accessible to certain individuals/groups, > > The standard solr server relies on your servlet container for > authentication/authorization. Using off the shelf stuff, you can use > the 'invariants' param to limit what fields are available for a given > handler. And then register different handlers to various paths with > path based authentication. Does this make sense? > > You could also inject your authentication logic into custom > RequestHandlers, UpdateProcessors, and/or SearchComponents > > ryan