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Jetty for eclipse standalone help system [message #473581] Mon, 21 April 2008 15:36 Go to next message
Marcus is currently offline MarcusFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hello everyone,

recently I read, the stand-alone Version of the Eclipse Help System ain't
using Tomcat anymore.
Instead of Tomcat it is using Equinox HTTP and Jetty now (since 3.3). As
far as I know, Jetty is using the first available port by default (as long
as the variable is set 0).

Are there any known problems by claiming the first available port? (for
example: conflicts with other webservers maybe?) How can I make sure, I
wont inflict any other running applications or webservers by using Jetty
in my standalone help?

Guess the only way doing this is to manually configure a free port on
every new system, where I want to use my application, or do I have other
possibilities?

More over I'd like to ask if anyone knows about articles or literature
about security issues by using Jetty in eclipse standalone Help System.

I am thankful for any advises or experiences.

Best regards,
Marcus

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Re: Jetty for eclipse standalone help system [message #473594 is a reply to message #473581] Tue, 29 April 2008 20:43 Go to previous message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris GoldthorpeFriend
Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009
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I don't know of any problems with getting the first available port. As
for the security question the help system consists of a number of
servlets, jsps and JavaScript files and while I'm not aware of anyone
hacking into the help system in order to do malicious things to a server
it's not inconceivable that a determined individual could find, for
example an XSS vulnerability and exploit it, so I would not run an
infocenter on the same server hat was also serving a financial or other
critical application.

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Re: Jetty for eclipse standalone help system [message #612035 is a reply to message #473581] Tue, 29 April 2008 20:43 Go to previous message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris GoldthorpeFriend
Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
I don't know of any problems with getting the first available port. As
for the security question the help system consists of a number of
servlets, jsps and JavaScript files and while I'm not aware of anyone
hacking into the help system in order to do malicious things to a server
it's not inconceivable that a determined individual could find, for
example an XSS vulnerability and exploit it, so I would not run an
infocenter on the same server hat was also serving a financial or other
critical application.

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