Remove the dependency on alicdn.com

[jpkrohling]

Jaeger might be deployed on a restricted network, so, depending on resources from alicdn.com should be avoided.

[yurishkuro]

@tiffon can we just embed the dependencies?

[tiffon]

I'll check it out.

[tiffon]

To remove the CDN: https://github.com/ant-design/antd-init/tree/master/examples/local-iconfont

[ghost]

I strongly concur - every installation is effectively advertising it's control points to that CDN.

[ghost]

There is no reference to that path in this repository, also, who publishes the docker images?

To remove the CDN: https://github.com/ant-design/antd-init/tree/master/examples/local-iconfont

[ghost]

It's interesting that an application intended to monitor the core of one's networks is embedding a beacon hosted on a Chinese CDN.

[ghost]

And surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.

[ghost]

@tiffon - any feedback ?

[ghost]

Ah - b7a3e74 - "Use Ant Design instead of Semantic UI" - looks like you're in for a penny - in for a pound with that dependency... Always be auditing..

[ghost]

So the issue has been brought up in ant-design in 2018 - they were not responsive (surprise) and a workaround was suggested - ant-design/ant-design#11063.

Really, I'd have to ask, do you really want to be cooking this into the middle of your network?

[tiffon]

@bryanhuntesl You down-voted local-iconfont, which is basically hosting the font locally. Can you elaborate on why that's not a valid solution?

We're also looking into using [email protected], which switches to SVGs but at the price of bloating the bundle.

[ghost]

Command injection vulnerability in that package's deps. Is it possible to fork ant-design and remove the CSS that loads the fonts from the PRC CDN ?

root@baae98a82d3e:/antd-init# npm install
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Jade has been renamed to pug, please install the latest version of pug instead of jade
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: to-iso-string has been deprecated, use @segment/to-iso-string instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue

> [email protected] postinstall /antd-init/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall

npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
added 165 packages from 381 contributors and audited 319 packages in 7.314s
found 4 vulnerabilities (2 low, 1 high, 1 critical)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
root@baae98a82d3e:/antd-init# npm audit  
                                                                                
                       === npm audit security report ===                        
                                                                                
# Run  npm install --save-dev [email protected]  to resolve 3 vulnerabilities
SEMVER WARNING: Recommended action is a potentially breaking change
                                                                                
  High            Regular Expression Denial of Service                          
                                                                                
  Package         minimatch                                                     
                                                                                
  Dependency of   mocha [dev]                                                   
                                                                                
  Path            mocha > glob > minimatch                                      
                                                                                
  More info       https://npmjs.com/advisories/118                              
                                                                                


                                                                                
  Low             Regular Expression Denial of Service                          
                                                                                
  Package         debug                                                         
                                                                                
  Dependency of   mocha [dev]                                                   
                                                                                
  Path            mocha > debug                                                 
                                                                                
  More info       https://npmjs.com/advisories/534                              
                                                                                


                                                                                
  Critical        Command Injection                                             
                                                                                
  Package         growl                                                         
                                                                                
  Dependency of   mocha [dev]                                                   
                                                                                
  Path            mocha > growl                                                 
                                                                                
  More info       https://npmjs.com/advisories/146                              
                                                                                


# Run  npm install [email protected]  to resolve 1 vulnerability
SEMVER WARNING: Recommended action is a potentially breaking change
                                                                                
  Low             Regular Expression Denial of Service                          
                                                                                
  Package         braces                                                        
                                                                                
  Dependency of   vinyl-fs                                                      
                                                                                
  Path            vinyl-fs > glob-stream > micromatch > braces                  
                                                                                
  More info       https://npmjs.com/advisories/786                              
                                                                                


found 4 vulnerabilities (2 low, 1 high, 1 critical) in 319 scanned packages
  4 vulnerabilities require semver-major dependency updates.

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/146

Overview

Affected versions of growl do not properly sanitize input prior to passing it into a shell command, allowing for arbitrary command execution.
Remediation

Update to version 1.10.2 or later.
Resources

tj/node-growl#60
tj/node-growl#61

[tiffon]

@bryanhuntesl I see, thanks.

Rather than forking antd, I think it's easier to serve the fonts (without the local-iconfont package) from /static and add the URL override to our less overrides.

[yurishkuro]

What exactly does local-iconfont package do? I thought it's built-time only tool that will package fonts as static assets.

[tiffon]

The fonts are static assets. We can simply copy them into our public/static folder and serve them out of static. The complication we need to deal with is the path-prefix.

Regarding what local-iconfont does, not really sure; serving the static assets from our public is what I had in mind.

[clippit]

From https://github.com/ant-design/antd-init/tree/master/examples/local-iconfont:

[email protected]+ 之后图标采用 svg 实现，不再从远程加载字体图标
[email protected]+ and subsequent version uses svg icon and no longer loads icon font from remote

So this issue could be resolved by upgrading current dependency (that is 3.8.0) or removing it completely (#520).

[jpkrohling]

@clippit would you like to give it a try?

[clippit]

@jpkrohling [email protected] is pretty old but current package.json is sticked to that version since #264. I think we should consider if antd dependency can be removed in near future version by #520. If not, upgrade to at least 3.9.0 may eliminate the annoying CDN fonts, which can be a quick workaround if no other issues occurs. But as @tiffon mentioned, using 3.9.0 will increase bundle size.