Re: W3C Specs: Web SQL

From: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: W3C Specs: Web SQL
Date: 2010-11-09 11:06:12
Message-ID: 20101109110612.GG6225@samason.me.uk
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:55:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Charles Pritchard's message of sáb nov 06 23:20:13 -0300 2010:
>
> > Simple async sql sub-set (the spec in trouble):
> > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/
>
> This is insane. This spec allows the server to run arbitrary SQL
> commands on the client, AFAICT. That seems like infinite joy for
> malicious people running webservers. The more powerful the dialect of
> SQL the client implements, the more dangerous it is.

How is this different from the server asking the client to run an
infinite loop in javascript?

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Sam http://samason.me.uk/

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