On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 23:03 , Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:54 AM, 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.
>>
>> Because you are running your code and you trust yourself (I hope so).
>> Another user may not trust you or your code, so he have to inspect
>> every bit of your code to make sure that it wouldn't make a big
>> security hole in his server. Having sandboxing feature guarantees him
>> that he may run third party code with no worries about.
>
> Heh right, I think Filipo is aware of the dichotomy. I think all we want to 
> say is that Elexir support for CouchDB is very welcome with and without a 
> sandbox (or both :)

Agree (:

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