BEA WebLogic Server 9.0 API Reference

weblogic.servlet.security
Class Utils

java.lang.Object
  weblogic.servlet.security.Utils

public class Utils

extends Object

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Constructor Summary

Utils()

Method Summary

static String	encodeXSS(String text) This helper method can be used to help prevent Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
static String	getConfiguredAuthMethod(HttpServletRequest request) Returns the auth-method as configured in web.xml for the webapp
static String	getConfiguredAuthMethod(ServletContext servletContext) Returns the auth-method as configured in web.xml for the webapp
static boolean	isSSLRequired(HttpServletRequest request) Checks whether SSL is required for the current request as per the security-constraints defined in the deployment descriptors.
static boolean	isSSLRequired(ServletContext servletContext, String relativeURI, String method) Checks whether SSL is required for the given URI and method as per the security-constraints defined in the deployment descriptors.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Utils

public Utils()

Method Detail

encodeXSS

public static String encodeXSS(String text)

This helper method can be used to help prevent Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. Any Servlet or JSP which sends user input (eg. query parameters in HTTP requests) to be rendered into a user's browser needs to use this method to encode the user input. This ensures that any HTML in their input (either malicious or otherwise) is not executed by the browser. This is achieved by converting characters to their HTML escaped form. For example, '&' is converted to '&'.

A full description of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities can be found at http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html.

Parameters:

text - This is the dynamic text which is going to be sent as html (eg. URL)

Returns:

encoded text

getConfiguredAuthMethod

public static String getConfiguredAuthMethod(HttpServletRequest request)

Returns the auth-method as configured in web.xml for the webapp

Parameters:

request - HttpServletRequest

Returns:

the auth-method as configured in web.xml

getConfiguredAuthMethod

public static String getConfiguredAuthMethod(ServletContext servletContext)

Returns the auth-method as configured in web.xml for the webapp

Parameters:

servletContext - javax.servlet.ServletContext

Returns:

the auth-method as configured in web.xml

isSSLRequired

public static boolean isSSLRequired(HttpServletRequest request)

Checks whether SSL is required for the current request as per the security-constraints defined in the deployment descriptors.

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

boolean

isSSLRequired

public static boolean isSSLRequired(ServletContext servletContext,
                                    String relativeURI,
                                    String method)

Checks whether SSL is required for the given URI and method as per the security-constraints defined in the deployment descriptors. This method will be useful for creating url references.

Parameters:

servletContext - javax.servlet.ServletContext

relativeURI - : should not include the context path

method - : GET/POST/PUT etc for which the check is desired

Returns:

boolean