On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Nolan Darilek <[email protected]>wrote:

>  On 02/16/2012 06:55 AM, Richard Hipp wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Nolan Darilek <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>  So is it currently possible to use TH1 to generate dynamic webpages?
>> Could I use it to, say, select the last 5 events and display them on the
>> main page? Or is that still out of reach?
>>
>> Just curious, since it seems like there are lots of scripting
>> possibilities coming down the pipeline.
>> Thanks!
>>
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> I was once open to this kind of thing.  But since the security risks have
> been pointed out to me, I'm now very reluctant to do anything like this.
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>>    I thought the point of TH1 was that it prevented this type of thing,
> that's why it's used in reporting. If TH1 isn't a secure, minimal TCL that
> can generate reports and, presumably, might be expanded a bit to pull and
> display information on artifacts, then what is it?
>

TH1 is secure by virtual of being minimalist.  It really doesn't do much
beyond simple variable substitution and if-then-else.  The point is, I want
to keep it that way so that it does not evolve into a security threat.  We
want to keep the "attack surface" as small as possible.



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