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rack-webconsole
Ruby2011–2011
codegram / rack-webconsole

rack-webconsole

Rack-based interactive console (à la Rails console) for your web application's front-end

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
246GitHub stars
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What it is

Rack-based interactive console (à la Rails console) for your web application's front-end

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What people are saying

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Observed mentions: 2011-07-25 14:43:44 UTC to 2011-07-25 17:14:19 UTC.

012011-07-25 14:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-25 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 25, 14:002011-07-25 15:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-25 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 25, 15:002011-07-25 16:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-25 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-07-25 17:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 25, 17:00

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Jul 25, 14:002011-07-25 14:00:00 UTC2011-07-25 15:00:00 UTC101
Jul 25, 15:002011-07-25 15:00:00 UTC2011-07-25 16:00:00 UTC101
Jul 25, 16:002011-07-25 16:00:00 UTC2011-07-25 17:00:00 UTC000
Jul 25, 17:002011-07-25 17:00:00 UTC2011-07-25 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It'd be one thing if this gem caused any arbitrary query string to be executed as ruby code That's pretty much the exact designed intent of the software. Read the Repl code, specifically, Repl#call at line 59 or so. https://github.com/codegram/rack-webconsole/blob/master/lib/... You'll note the code has recently been enhanced with check_legitimate, which was designed to patch the issue I raised on this thread (and via email). I am going to very carefully avoid commenting about whether check_legitimate actually works as designed. My main worry is that pronouncing it done well would make me professionally responsible when it gets cracked, and committing to endless rounds of "Actually, that won't really work" throws good hours after bad in pursuit of securing a bad idea which is architecturally insecurable. Do not allow your web applicati
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on to execute arbitrary code. It will not end well.
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