Enable Internet Access from Octave
Currently, internet access is disabled from the Octave command line, preventing the use of functions like "urlread" and "urlwrite". I would like to be able to use those functions in my scripts.
AdminShane
(Octave Online Webmaster, Octave Online)
shared this idea
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There are a couple of ways this could be done. One is to open up the Octave shell running on the server to the internet, but this has major security considerations. Another, as Ciprian mentioned, is to have the browser serve as a proxy, but as Ciprian mentioned this might be blocked as cross-site XHR. A third option would be to configure some sort of middle-man proxy, which could balance the security concerns with the front-end usability.
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Ciprian Tomoiaga
commented
I'm not sure whether this is feasible, as it would be regarded by the browser as cross-domain scripting, which is a security issue.