[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] isecure XML-RPC handling.

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:18:40 -0500


You are running Zope in debug mode (with the -D switch in the "start" file).
This is the default.  Please try running Zope in non-debug mode (remove
the -D switch) and try this again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rossen Raykov" <raikovr@yahoo.com>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Cc: <klm@zope.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: [Zope] isecure XML-RPC handling.


> Zope is not handling correct XML-RPC request.
>
> Even the example from http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC is not
> working.
>
> Even worst if a request like this one in the quoted example is send to the
> web server it will report information about the local server installation
> and the internal network.
>
> Included are a request and response to www.zope.org.
>
> As one may see the server is installed in
> /usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/
> and it rely on 10.0.11.3:1380 for request processing.
>
> All this may be useful debug information but it is not acceptable for a
> production server!
>
> I'm not familiar with Zope and I cannot say is it only a configuration
> problem or it is a problem in the code.
>
> I do not have time to investigate that but a similar result may be
achieved
> with the distribution offered for download.
>
> Please let me know if I have to send this bug information to some one
else.
>
> I would like to be informed and when this issue is resolved so I can
> announce it on Bug-Traq.
>
> Regards,
> Rossen Raykov
>
> <cut here>
> $ telnet www.zope.org 80
> Trying 63.102.49.33...
> Connected to www.zope.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> POST /Foo/Bar/MyFolder HTTP/1.0
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-length: 95
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <methodCall>
>  <methodName>objectIds</methodName>
>  <params/>
> </methodCall>
>
>
> HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
> Server: Zope/Zope 2.3.2 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2)
ZServer/1.1b1
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:09:14 GMT
> Bobo-Exception-File:
/var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/xmllib.py
> Content-Type: text/html
> Bobo-Exception-Type: RuntimeError
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> Content-Length: 6864
> Bobo-Exception-Line: 748
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>  Error value: Syntax error at line 5: bogus `<'
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> Traceback (innermost last):
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/usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
> line 223, in publish_module
>   File
/usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
> line 187, in publish
>   File /usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py,
line
> 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook
>    (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
>   File
/usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
> line 136, in publish
>   File
> /usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py,
> line 414, in processInputs
>   File
/usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/ZPublisher/xmlrpc.py,
> line 120, in parse_input
>   File /usr/local/base/Zope-2.3.2-modified/lib/python/xmlrpclib.py, line
> 531, in loads
>   File /var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/xmllib.py, line 153,
in
> close
>   File /var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/xmllib.py, line 365,
in
> goahead
>   File /var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/xmllib.py, line 748,
in
> syntax_error
> RuntimeError: (see above)
>
> -->
> Connection closed by foreign host.
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