[AXIS2-457] Axis2 should not open an inbound http port by default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95
• Fix Version/s: 0.95
• Component/s: transports
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 22/Feb/06 01:43
• Updated: 29/Apr/10 08:07
• Resolved: 08/Mar/06 21:39

Description

When Axis2 starts up the transports, they open up an http listener by default. This may be what people want if they are doing fully async messaging, but if they are not (and the majority of SOAP users are not), then it is just another security risk to be managed.

1. the listener should be off by default.
2. some kind of switch can turn it on when asked, or even when bidirectional async messaging starts up.