Bug #321: mod_fastcgi authorizers cannot protect fastcgi responders - Lighttpd - lighty labs

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Bug #321

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mod_fastcgi authorizers cannot protect fastcgi responders

Added by Anonymous about 19 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:

Fixed

Priority:

Normal

Category:

mod_fastcgi

Target version:

1.4.42

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Description

lighttpd will serve a fastcgi as a static file if an authorizer is setup to protect its parent location.

For example,
if a fastcgi authorizer is setup to protect /test/
and a responder is setup at /test/test.fcgi, lighttpd will return the binary contents of test.fcgi (or a 404 if /test/test.fcgi is a remote responder).

This is because the mechanism to tell mod_fastcgi that it has already authorized a request never accounted for this need.

-- cpisto

Files

fastcgi-authorizer-fixes.diff (6.61 KB) fastcgi-authorizer-fixes.diff

All fastcgi mode=authorizer fixes (Variable- env works, proper re-dispatching, and assert failure fix when auth is running in front of cgi).

maherb, 2006-06-20 12:02

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Updated by maherb over 18 years ago

This seems like a pretty important detail, and if you are going to advertise the fact that you support a fastcgi authorizer, you should probably warn users about this defect .

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Updated by maherb about 18 years ago

Status changed from New to Assigned

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Updated by jan about 17 years ago

Status changed from Assigned to Fixed
Resolution set to invalid

We are only following the FastCGI spec.

In 1.5.0 we added X-Rewrite which fixes this is a generic way.

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Updated by Anonymous almost 17 years ago

Where in the spec does it say that an authorizer can only protect static files? I just wasted an entire day writing an MySQL authorizer just to realize that LightTPD's implementation of the authorizer mode can only be used to protect static files and only if the mod_fastcgi matches URLs using file extensions. If URLs are matched using a path prefix, mod_fastcgi appends the prefix to the docroot and completely forgets about the rest of the URL. This so useless that I wonder why the authorizer support actually exists in mod_fastcgi. The attached patch looks sane to me, can't you apply it and get on with it? I don't really want to wait another year until 1.5 comes out, if at all.

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