Let me know where it is and I’ll delete all the documents in your collection.
It is easy, just one HTTP request.

https://gist.github.com/nz/673027/313f70681daa985ea13ba33a385753aef951a0f3

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> On Oct 8, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think there were past discussions about people doing but they really
> really knew what they were doing from a security perspective, not just
> Solr one.
> 
> You are increasing your risk factor a lot, so you need to think
> through this. What are you protecting and what are you exposing. Are
> you trying to protect the updates? You may be able to do it with - for
> example - read-only docker container, or with embedded Solr or/and
> with reverse proxy.
> 
> Are you trying to protect some of the data from being read? Even harder.
> 
> There are implicit handlers, admin handlers, 'qt' to select query
> parser, etc. Lots of things to think about.
> 
> It just may not be worth it.
> 
> Regards,
>   Alex.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 14:27, Marco Aurélio <aurelio.marco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> We're looking into the option of setting up search with Solr without an
>> intermediary application. This would mean our backend would index data into
>> Solr and we would have a public Solr endpoint on the internet that would
>> receive search requests directly.
>> 
>> Since I couldn't find an existing solution similar to ours, I would like to
>> know whether it's possible to secure Solr in a way that allows anyone only
>> read-access only to collections and how to achieve that. Specifically
>> because of this part of the documentation
>> <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_5/securing-solr.html>:
>> 
>> *No Solr API, including the Admin UI, is designed to be exposed to
>> non-trusted parties. Tune your firewall so that only trusted computers and
>> people are allowed access. Because of this, the project will not regard
>> e.g., Admin UI XSS issues as security vulnerabilities. However, we still
>> ask you to report such issues in JIRA.*
>> Is there a way we can restrict read-only access to Solr collections so as
>> to allow users to make search requests directly to it or should we always
>> keep our Solr instances completely private?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Marco Godinho

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