Re: javascript and postgres

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: 野村 <nomura(at)ir-alt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: javascript and postgres
Date: 2009-02-24 07:06:48
Message-ID: dcc563d10902232306y3a72e5ddja2e6c96f1080e13@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Craig Ringer
<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> 野村 wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> My javascript connects with postgres using php.
>> php responds with XML for my select request.
>> I wonder is there any way to access to postgres directly?
>
> Nothing stops you passing SQL snippets from JavaScript into your PHP
> code, which then dispatches then to the server and returns the results.
>
> This is a really, really, REALLY bad idea. It allows anybody with the
> ability to access your XML-RPC interface for PHP (say via XMLHttpRequest
> in their browser) to send whatever SQL code they want to your server.

Note however that there is such a beast as server side javascript.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

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