[LON-CAPA-users] File access from LonCapa?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Robert,

> <font size="2">Is it possible to access files from within the Perl
> scripts in LonCapa? 

No, 'open' and similar opcodes have been specifically disabled to
prevent hack attempts against the server.

The only means to read a file is the <import>.

> My thought was to publish a text file, then try and
> read/update it from within a perl script.

We specifically can't allow 'update' since that would bypass the
publication mechanism and thus servers would fail to be in sync.


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