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URI 
Purpose 
Safe to Block 
/CFIDE/services 
Contains CFCs that can act as 
a service layer to Flex, or 
other client side applications. 
The client application must 
have a username / password 
and also an allowed IP. 
Enabling this feature can 
open up a large amount of 
security risk to the 
application server. 
Yes 
/CFIDE/websocket 
API for web socket listener 
CFCs. Does not need to be 
open via the web server if 
used. 
Yes 
/CFIDE/wizards 
Possibly used for IDE 
integration, not needed on 
production. 
Yes 
/CFIDE/main 
Used for RDS 
Yes 
Table 2.10.2: Additional URIs to consider blocking: 
URI 
Purpose 
Safe to Block 
/Application.cf 
Block Application.cfc and 
Application.cfm requests which 
result in an error when accessed 
directly. 
Yes 
/WEB-INF 
WEB-INF contains configuration 
data used by the java 
application server. The Tomcat 
connector will block this 
already, but you can block it at 
the web server level as well. 
Yes 
/cfformgateway 
Used for <cfform format=flash> 
Only if Flash Forms are not 
used. 
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