(keitai-l) Re: i-appli jar files hackable?

From: Ashish Agrawal <ashish_ag_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 03/18/01
Message-ID: <F158tIIZS2TRqf69aZb00003f53@hotmail.com>
>just wondering if it's possible for someone using a normal pc-based web
>browser to access a site with an i-appli link and somehow download the
>i-appli's jar file (by re-enterring the .jar file's url), retrieve the .jar
>from the browser's cache directory, open the jar, reverse engineer
>the .class files to expose the source code?

yep, this is totally possible as with any other java code.


>just wondering what security measures there are, besides doing an initial
>USER_AGENT check and denying access to all non-i-appli clients?  is the
>latter sufficient?

User_agent check along with many other checks is not sufficient, since it 
could be very easily faked by a perl script or a java robot!


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