Re: [Geoserver-users] Possible bug with Catalog Mode in Data Security

[Andrea A. <and...@ge...>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:51 PM, João Gouveia | Horus <jo...@ho...> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am testing GeoServer with a client I am developing and I have a question
> regarding security.
> According to the documentation, setting the Catalog mode to Challenge
> should expose the layers and make the server send a 401 error in case the
> credentials are not sent. This is not what is happening with an insert or
> update transactions. Only the delete transaction sends a 401. Both insert
> and update send a 200 with an ExceptionReport xml. This is problematic
> because it makes it hard to develop a client that will request
> authentication. Especially because the exception code is simply a
> "InvalidParameterValue".
>
> Is this a design decision or is it a bug?
>

It is not a design decision for sure, sounds more like an accident of
implementation, likely happening
because the code cannot even parse the XML in those conditions (the parser
being driven by the schema,
and likely not able to get to the schema) and the original security
exception is
somehow replaced. But it's just a guess.

Feel free to open a ticket, with steps to reproduce.

Cheers
Andrea

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