Well that’s why I suggested deleting the update handler :)

> On Oct 8, 2020, at 2:52 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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