On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, excord80 <excor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2:37 pm, Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> There is no solution to this problem from a Python perspective. Do >> what everyone does right now: [snip] > > It still surprises me that no one has implemented the solution for > this yet. > > Maybe it's harder than it seems, but it *seeems* like it's just a > matter of telling Firefox, "hey, when you see this special html > element that tells you to run this python code from the web, do it". > Then have FF load up a python interpreter, sandbox it somehow (that > is, limit it to only a safe subset of its std lib), it runs the code
The "sandbox it somehow" part is significantly harder than you seem to believe it would be. Python tried previously with the rexec and Bastion modules, but they were found to be irreparably flawed and thus were removed. However, Google App Engine seems to have found at least a partial solution, but they're keeping it to themselves as far as I know, and it's server-side rather than client-side anyway. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
