[OpenLayers-Users] Importing JSON to WKT

[Greg Allensworth]

On 7/10/2012 2:35 PM, Joel Leininger wrote:
> That works. But I'm under the impression that eval() is a bad, bad thing
> from a security standpoint. Is this safe code to use in a production
> environment?

Only if you can trust the programmer who's sending you the WKT.

In your case, you're the author and it's your database, and you can 
probably ensure that the WKT will never contain malicious JavaScript code.

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