How Safe is it using Web File Connection

[kahl_dre]

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

[kaushiknsolanki]

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.

[kahl_dre]

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?

[kaushiknsolanki]

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

[Bill_Britt]

Hi,

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

Bill

[kahl_dre]

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.

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