comparison doc/xmlrpc.txt @ 5220:14d8f61e6ef2

Reimplemented anti-csrf measures by raising exceptions rather than returning booleans. Redoing it using exceptions was the easiest way to return proper xmlrpc fault messages to the clients. Also this code should now properly make values set in the form override values from the database. So no lost work under some circumstances if the csrf requirements are not met. Also this code does a better job of cleaning up old csrf tokens.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:56:08 -0400
parents ade4bbc2716d
children 198b6e810c67
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138 [] 138 []
139 >>> roundup_server.lookup('user','admin') 139 >>> roundup_server.lookup('user','admin')
140 '1' 140 '1'
141 141
142 The one below adds Referer and X-Requested-With headers so it can pass 142 The one below adds Referer and X-Requested-With headers so it can pass
143 stronger CSRF detection methods. Note if you are using http rather 143 stronger CSRF detection methods. It also generates a fault message
144 than https, replace xmlrpclib.SafeTransport with xmlrpclib.Transport:: 144 from the server and reports it. Note if you are using http rather than
145 https, replace xmlrpclib.SafeTransport with xmlrpclib.Transport::
145 146
146 import xmlrpclib 147 import xmlrpclib
147 148
148 class SpecialTransport(xmlrpclib.SafeTransport): 149 class SpecialTransport(xmlrpclib.SafeTransport):
149 150
167 168
168 print roundup_server.schema() 169 print roundup_server.schema()
169 print roundup_server.display('user2', 'username') 170 print roundup_server.display('user2', 'username')
170 print roundup_server.display('issue1', 'status') 171 print roundup_server.display('issue1', 'status')
171 print roundup_server.filter('user',['1','2','3'],{'username':'demo'}) 172 print roundup_server.filter('user',['1','2','3'],{'username':'demo'})
173
174 # this will fail with a fault
175 try:
176 print roundup_server.filter('usr',['0','2','3'],{'username':'demo'})
177 except Exception, msg:
178 print msg

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