On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Valentin Kulichenko < valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dmitry, > > I just think that it's natural to have this functionality and that it would > drastically increase flexibility of thin client. Multiple requests from > users (one of them in this thread) seem to confirm this. At the same time, > I don't see much technical challenge here (like with near caches or > continuous queries for example), and therefore don't see why we should be > against this features. > > Can you please elaborate on security risks? What exactly do you have in > mind? > Val, my main concern was that users would use the thin client to connect to a remote cluster, hosted elsewhere, and could run some malicious code. But you are right, it can probably be solved by other means, like a firewall for example. No objections on adding the compute API to thin clients from me.
