On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:40:42PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:49:37PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Joe Orton wrote:
No, when mod_proxy is used as a generic HTTP proxy (a not entirely uncommon configuration) it needs to be able to connect to any remote port on any remote address.
Defaulting apache to can_network_connect_any=1 could allow a subverted apache web server to be setup as a spammer, or a launch site for further attacks. So I don't think this would be a good idea.
Currently the following is known to be broken in the default configuration:
Another one, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165592
4) web applications which connect to remote LDAP databases, and similarly, I guess, the Apache LDAP-based authentication module, if configured to use remote LDAP databases.