On Oct 16, 2013, at 22:54 , Filippo Fadda <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Sandboxing is something optional I think, you need only when you are 
> developing a CouchApp, when you do all in JavaScript, using the _users 
> database and running the app inside CouchDB. But if you are just using 
> CouchDB like a database, developing a web app using PHP or Python, for 
> example, you'll never give access to CouchDB from outside, through Futon for 
> example, so no one will be able to store a new design doc in your database to 
> run malicious code. I'm using PHP with the ElephantOnCouch Query Server, 
> writing ddoc in PHP, and I really don't see why I should using runkit to 
> sandboxing the Query Server.

That was exactly my point. Thank you for making it more clear, Filippo :)

Best
Jan
--

> 
> -Filippo
> 
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> 
>> Another option would be to start with treating the Elexir Query Server
>> like the Erlang Query Server and keep it off by default and with full
>> access to the internals, so people could opt into it, if their environment
>> allows for it.
>> 
>> Sandboxing could be a step on top or later.
>> 
>> I for one would like to see native Elexir support for Views et.al in CouchDB 
>> :)
>> 
>> Best
>> Jan
>> --
>> 
>> On Oct 16, 2013, at 20:48 , Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> There have been discussions on figuring out how to sandbox Erlang. The
>>> biggest thing on that front was that we'd want it to be a whitelist as
>>> opposed to a blacklist of modules and/or module/function pairs. The
>>> second is that with dynamic invocation its not immediately apparent if
>>> that's entirely possible to do.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Chris Keele <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hey everyone! I'm trying to develop a sandbox for Elixir, and I wanted to 
>>>> see how such a library might prove useful to the CouchDB dev community.
>>>> 
>>>> My initial goal is just to be able to run string of code in a predefined 
>>>> environment with configurable modules disabled, returning all output. But 
>>>> I'd like to design it for bigger things from the ground up, so I was 
>>>> wondering what sorts of requirements you might have of a sandbox library 
>>>> if you wanted to, say, implement a secure view processor.
>>>> 
>>>> I've started a discussion thread here: 
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elixir-lang-talk/wA1l74HCZmI, but 
>>>> I'm particularly interested in your opinions!
>>>> --
>>>> Chris Keele
>>>> 
>> 
> 

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