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Issue 64: Harden the UntrustedWebRequest class
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Status:  Fixed
Owner:  andrewarnott
Closed:  May 2008
Type-Security
Priority-High
Release-2.2


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Reported by andrewarnott, Apr 12, 2008
The Fetcher class is not as exploit-proof as we'd like.  
Discovery on "localhost" and other non-routable addresses should be 
disabled in release builds to prevent web servers from being "tricked" 
into calling URLs on themselves or other internal servers.
Comment 1 by andrewarnott, May 01, 2008
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Comment 2 by andrewarnott, May 23, 2008
An example of a paranoid HTTP client can be found here:
http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/LWPx-ParanoidAgent-1.02/lib/LWPx/ParanoidAgent.pm
Summary: Harden the UntrustedWebRequest class
Status: Started
Owner: andrewarnott
Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Medium -Release-2.0 Type-Security Priority-High Release-2.1
Comment 3 by andrewarnott, May 23, 2008
Paranoid HTTP upgrade checked into Master branch.  
Status: FixedNeedsMerge
Comment 4 by andrewarnott, May 31, 2008
Merged from master into v2.2 branch
Status: Fixed
Labels: -Release-2.1 Release-2.2
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