topic Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection in QlikView

How Safe is it using Web File Connection

kahl_dre — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:26:37 GMT

Hi,

I had a customer ask me if pulling data from a Web File can introduce Malware to the System.

Is there a whitepaper / official page that I can give to them that explains that it is safe to do this?

Thanks

Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection

kaushiknsolanki — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:16:15 GMT

If you are using Web Files, I guess the changes are that you may get malware if it is attached to that file. Never tried this, but would like community experts to suggest.

Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection

kahl_dre — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:59:56 GMT

Hi Kaushik,

Just to be clear, I am talking about the HTML "scraping". Surely that only reads the HTML text and doesn't download a file or executes any sort of code from the Web page?

Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection

kaushiknsolanki — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:34:08 GMT

You are right, I am referring to the same, but I am not sure if it invites any malware.

Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection

Bill_Britt — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:39:42 GMT

Hi,

Never gave this much thought, but you are scraping data, and not creating a function in the load script.

Bill

Re: How Safe is it using Web File Connection

kahl_dre — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:57:12 GMT

Hi Bill,

Yes. Just a simple data fetch from a website, but the customer is concerned about malware and I need to have some sort of documentation, to prove that no web code gets executed, so no malware can get onto the QlikView server via this data fetch.

LOAD
Name,
Abbreviation,
Currency,
Rate
FROM
[https://tools.sars.gov.za/rex/Rates/Default.aspx]
(html, codepage is 1252, embedded labels, table is @1);