[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (WICKET-4431) Possible to retrieve files from WEB-INF (e.g., web.xml).

["Sebastiaan van Erk (Issue Comment Edited) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebastiaan van Erk edited comment on WICKET-4431 at 2/25/12 10:57 AM:
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I don't really understand how this is a duplicate of WICKET-4430. The problem I'm pointing to in this case is the fact that the / of the servlet context directory is added to the directories searched for resources by default and there is no explicit protection to avoid accessing resources in the WEB-INF directory. This is a different problem then the scoping problem.

That is, the constructor of the WebApplicationPath is as follows:

	public WebApplicationPath(final ServletContext servletContext)
	{
		this.servletContext = servletContext;

		// adding root so servlet context resources are always checked
		webappPaths.add("/");
	}

and an instance of this class is used as a default resource finder.
                
      was (Author: sebster):
    I don't really understand how this is a duplicate of WICKET-4430. The problem I'm pointing to in this case is the fact that the / of the servlet context directory is added to the directories searched for resources by default and there is no explicit protection to avoid accessing resources in the WEB-INF directory. This is a different problem then the scoping problem.
                  
> Possible to retrieve files from WEB-INF (e.g., web.xml).
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WICKET-4431
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4431
>             Project: Wicket
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: wicket
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.4
>            Reporter: Sebastiaan van Erk
>            Assignee: Peter Ertl
>            Priority: Critical
>
> The following URL works to get the web.xml from the WEB-INF directory:
> http://localhost:8080/wicket/resource/int/WEB-INF/web.xml
> This is because the WebApplicationPath constructor by default adds / allowing us to access the resources from the servlet context.

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