Sorry for the cross-posting, but I guess that's also interesting to Galaxy users...
I've been thinking about input validation too... only a bit more generally, on a server/production basis. Nate, on your production setup[1] (galaxy main), do you use any kind of filter or framework a la modsecurity[2] to prevent security issues on third party tools ? How do you mitigate those security risks ? [1] http://usegalaxy.org/production [2] http://modsecurity.org/ On 2011-06-23 00:27, Jennifer Jackson wrote: > Hi Russell, > > Dan Blankenberg is our ChIP-seq expert and will be able to work with you > when he returns from vacation. > > Thank you for your patience! > > Best, > > Jen > Galaxy team > > On 6/20/11 2:22 PM, Russell Bonneville wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am Russell, a student working with Dr. Victor Jin at the Dept. of >> Biomedical Informatics, OSU Medical Center. I am developing a Galaxy >> wrapper for our ChIP-seq peak-calling program BELT (PMID: 21138948), and >> I have a question about input validation. Does Galaxy filter for >> malicious field entries (such as XSS attacks) or is this our wrapper’s >> responsibility (the MACS wrapper appears to not perform any explicit >> checks)? Thank you for your time. >> >> Sincerely, Russell Bonneville >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" >> in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this >> and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: >> >> http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________ The Galaxy User list should be used for the discussion of Galaxy analysis and other features on the public server at usegalaxy.org. Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. For discussion of local Galaxy instances and the Galaxy source code, please use the Galaxy Development list: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/galaxy-dev To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
