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This is something that I've wrestled with when working with meteor, how do you execute privileged queries from the client? You can do a 'Meteor.call' to execute
by denom 12y ago
This is something that I've wrestled with when working with meteor, how do you execute privileged queries from the client? You can do a 'Meteor.call' to execute code on the server, but there is no way to shield the user from accessing the parameters used in the query.
Traditionally, you would use a cookie on the client to authenticate and trigger the 'privileged' query during the http request cycle. As far as I can tell there is no way to do this with Meteor. Another way to phrase it is there is no authenticated server-side state modeling the client.
- dandv 12y agoIn the same vein, there's no way to shield the user from accessing the parameters of a REST request. Which incidentally is easier to replay outside the browser than a Meteor.call().
- denom 12y agoAfter doing some poking it looks like you can access `this.userId` in the server-side publish and Meteor.methods functions. That's enough to prevent a lot of client-side tampering
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