Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 12:00 AM.
system.verbs.builtins.opmlEditor.firewall
on firewall (pta, username=nil, password=nil) {
<<Changes
<<3/1/11; 10:47:26 AM by DW
<<Temporarily, allow caller to pass us the username and password, which overrides the global one. Part of a bootstrap of a new identity system in here.
<<2/26/11; 11:19:38 PM by DW
<<Patterned after river2suite.firewall.
local (adrdata = opmleditor.init ());
<<bundle //call the callbacks
<<local (adr)
<<for adr in @user.radio.callbacks.firewall
<<try
<<while typeOf (adr^) == addressType
<<adr = adr^
<<if adr^ (pta)
<<return (true)
scratchpad.firewallparams = pta^;
on getHostFromReferer (referer) {
local (urllist, host);
try {
urllist = string.urlsplit (pta^.requestHeaders.referer)}
else {
urllist = string.urlsplit (pta^.requestHeaders.referer + "/")};
host = urllist [2];
if host contains ":" {
host = string.nthField (host, ":", 1)};
return (host)};
bundle { //init pta^.opmlEditor
if not defined (pta^.opmlEditor) {
new (tabletype, @pta^.opmlEditor)};
pta^.opmlEditor.flSameMachine = opmlEditor.isSameMachine (pta^.client)};
if pta^.opmlEditor.flSameMachine {
return (true)};
if not adrdata^.prefs.security.flAllowRemoteViewing {
scriptError ("Access denied.")};
if pta^.method == "POST" {
if not adrdata^.prefs.security.flAllowRemotePost {
scriptError ("Access denied.")}};
if adrdata^.prefs.security.flRequireRemoteLogin or (pta^.method == "POST") {
local (flsecure = false);
if webserver.util.parseAuth (pta) { //get username and password
if username == nil {
username = pta^.username};
if password == nil {
password = pta^.password};
if string.lower (username) == string.lower (adrdata^.prefs.security.remoteUsername) {
if string (password) == string (adrdata^.prefs.security.remotePassword) {
flsecure = true}}};
if not flsecure { //send challenge
pta^.responseBody = webserver.util.buildErrorPage ("401 Unauthorized", "A valid username and password are required to access this page.");
pta^.responseHeaders.["WWW-Authenticate"] = "Basic realm=\"Admin\"";
pta^.code = 401;
return (false)};
if pta^.method == "POST" { //1/23/02 JES: check non-local referers
try { //some users behind proxy servers can't do DNS lookups -- don't do a 500 Server Error
local (refererhost = getHostFromReferer (pta^.requestHeaders.referer));
if refererhost != tcp.dns.getMyDottedId () {
if not tcp.equalNames (refererhost, tcp.dns.getMyDottedId ()) {
scriptError ("Access denied.")}}}
else { //check for local NAT IP addresses, as defined by ICANN
<<Reference: http://www.riverstonenet.com/technology/nat.shtml
local (myIp = tcp.dns.getMyDottedId ());
if myIp beginsWith "10." { //10.x.x.x is ok. (Class A)
return (true)};
if myIp beginsWith "172." { //172.31.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 are ok. (Class B)
local (x = number (string.nthField (myIp, ".", 2)));
if x >= 0 and x <= 31 {
return (true)}};
if myIp beginsWith "192.168." { //192.168.x.x is ok. (Class C)
return (true)};
scriptError ("Access denied.")}}};
return (true)};
bundle { //test code
firewall (@scratchpad.firewallparams)}
This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.