Webapps denying all outside access by default?

[drago01]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jared K. Smith
<jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'm missing anything here, but is it intended that
>> webapps should not be accessible from anywhere but localhost by default?
>
>
> That's my understanding, yes.  It follows from the general understanding
> that network-accessible daemons (with perhaps the exception of sshd) should
> not be accessible from outside of localhost by default.
>
> Now I'm curious... do you have a particularly strong reason why web apps
> should be different than any other network daemon?

Because they aren't. The daemon in this case is httpd, not the webapps.