Take a look at the PlatformAdaptationLayer class. You can create your own and 
plug it in to the runtime. This might provide the hooks you are looking for.

In particular, you should be able to override the LoadAssembly() and 
LoadAssemblyFromPath() methods to block anything that isn't whitelisted for 
your host environment.


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From: Ironpython-users 
[mailto:ironpython-users-bounces+rome=wintellect....@python.org] On Behalf Of 
Markus Schaber
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:09 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [Ironpython-users] Restrict referencing of assemblies in hosted 
environment

Hello,

We're using IronPython as a hosted script engine in our application.

Now, we want to restrict the assemblies a user can reference from its python 
script,

Currently, we just forbid "import clr", by wrapping the import() method, but 
this is a bit harsh, and the side-effects are a little bit to strong (e. G. it 
causes "import minidom.py" to fail...)

However, there seems to be no event or other hook available for AddReference 
which I could use. It may be possible to add an AssemblyLoading event to the 
ScriptDomainManager in Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime, which allows to cancel the 
assembly loading by throwing an exception. Would such a patch be accepted 
upstream?

An alternative (not-so-elegant) idea is that I just wrap all the AddReference() 
& Co calls inside the clr module, but there may be a more elegant way.

Isolating Ironpython in its own AppDomain is not an option, as this would 
require major rework of our Scripting API implementation, and also break 
backwards compatibility for 3rd party plugins which contribute API for the 
scripts.

(We don't need a 100% waterproof method -  we know that the user can use 
cTypes, System.Reflection, or whatever to circumvent everything - we just want 
to restrict the obvious ways to access some APIs we consider to be internal.)

Best regards

Markus Schaber
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