Is It Safe to Host HTML That Runs Its Own JavaScript?
A developer explains their strategy for hosting user-uploaded HTML and JavaScript by utilizing sandboxed iframes rather than attempting to sanitize the code. This approach treats all uploaded content as inherently hostile to prevent security breaches.
Why it matters
It offers a practical, security-first architectural solution for platforms that rely on user-generated interactive content.
We host whatever HTML people upload, JavaScript and all, and most of it is generated by an AI and never read line by line first. So the honest answer to 'what stops that code from injecting something or hijacking a session' is not that we scrub it clean. It is that we assume every page is hostile and make that assumption not matter. Here is exactly how.
The content is a technical explanation of a security strategy with no political or social agenda.
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