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Re: Rationale for makeing Invoker harder to user

by Tim Funk :: Rate this Message:

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http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#evil

-Tim

Paul Mendelson wrote:

> I recently installed Tomacat 6.0 and see that I now need to make my web
> application privalaged in order to use InvokerServlet to allow users to
> execute arbitrary servlets.  This seems to continue a trend that may
> eventually result in Invoker being widthdrawn.
>
> My question is why is allowing execution of arbitrary servlets so
> discouraged.  In my opinion JSPs are essentially servlets with a
> differnt deployment convention and there is no prohibition on running
> jsps without "registering them."
>
> I like to build web applications with hundreds of servlets and I prefer
> not to explicitly define each one in web.xml.  Is there any sanctioned
> method of doing this in a tomcat world?
>

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