Re: disabling 'insecure' parts of gnuplot file

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 30 August 2004 12:56 pm, Edward Peschko wrote:
> 
> I'm writing an application whose intent is to take a gnuplot file, turn it into a
> PNG graph, and then display that graph online.

> IE: it would be up to the user to use programs
> to create data, etc. which would then be uploaded to mediawiki.

I took a step back to think about what you said you want to do,
and now I am puzzled.  If the external user is writing the gnuplot script,
then I presume they know how to use gnuplot.  You also say that the
external user will be generating the data.  So why can't they just run
the script themselves and upload the resulting png file to the wiki,
rather than uploading the script and having the wiki's host machine
run it there?

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