[OpenLayers-Users] Importing JSON to WKT

[Joel Leininger]

That's true, we do control both sides of that transaction. Any ideas why we
should have to resort to this??



On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Greg Allensworth <gregor at greeninfo.org>wrote:

> 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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