Make information pages visible to Admin users only

Hi Dean,

Thanks for reaching out with your suggestion. I've logged this as an Idea for an Enhancement Request. Before becoming a request, ideas will be reviewed by our Product Team and chosen for Enhancements based on feasibility, level of positive impact to the user experience, and votes from the community. This post will be updated with any future information relevant to this process.

Cheers,

Neal

Hi Dean,

Just wanted to update you on this to say that there is an ability to allow access to those pages for authenticated users (but not restricted to Admin users) via the web.xml, which unfortunately had been previously undocumented. I have updated this article to include the required details, but the code you need to add to the bottom of your web.xml (prior to the </web-app> tag) is as follows:

  <filter>
    <filter-name>NotLoggedInFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.hof.adapter.NotLoggedInFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param> 
        <param-name>restrictedEntryPoint</param-name> 
        <param-value>/info.jsp,/info_threads.jsp,/info_cache.jsp,/info_browser.jsp</param-value> 
    </init-param> 
    <init-param> 
          <param-name>redirectUrl</param-name> 
          <param-value>/?</param-value> 
    </init-param> 
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>NotLoggedInFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

Please let me know if this will give you the control you need for this.

Cheers,

Neal

Thanks Neal,  
That's more secure than anonymous access for sure.  
I'm thinking we'll go with an approach like this:

• no-one can view normally
• when needed for debugging, admin will add the rules you gave here, temporarily
  
• if admin is solving a problem stopping them from logging in, remove all restrictions, temporarily.  They should restrict user network/internet access to the server during this time.

Cheers,
Dean

Hi Dean,

No worries, I think that is a good strategy. With this in mind, I will be closing this off, but if you have any further questions please do reach out to us.

Cheers,

Neal