1   package com.atlassian.security.auth.trustedapps;
2   
3   /**
4    * Filter that is supposed to prevent attacks on cross-application trust feature by restricting a range of IP addresses
5    * such request can originate from.
6    */
7   public interface IPMatcher
8   {
9       /**
10       * check if this IP is allowed to perform trusted calls.
11       * 
12       * @throws IPAddressFormatException if the ip is not of the correct format.
13       */
14      boolean match(String ipAddress) throws IPAddressFormatException;
15  }