Remove multiple hostnames from startWebRequest #45121
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After completing a comprehensive review of all allowed hostnames, the following five are being removed: 1. apex.oracle.com - the documentation seems to indicate this would just allow for querying of a database the student/teacher has access to https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/application-express/20.2/aeapi/preface.html - given the risk for arbitrary content, removing (we also don't think students/teachers would have access to many if any Oracle databases to use this API). 2. enclout.com- this is a domain, Entity and Language processing API, we saw cert expired and thus are removing. 3. herokuapp.com - it was unclear what the original reasoning for this hostname being added - the hostname is a risk to us allowing arbitrary content to be passed to App Lab and has caused multiple reports on the teacher forums. 4. pastebin.com - this API stores online text, removed as we do not want to support arbitrary text access in our allowed hostnames and such use cases can be met with the data tables in App Lab. 5. spreadsheets.google.com - This API no longer works as there are no references to it from https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest and we know the sheets API does not work for us due to its forward redirects Zendesk ticket: https://codedotorg.atlassian.net/browse/STAR-2040
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After completing a comprehensive review of all allowed hostnames, the following five are being removed:
apex.oracle.com - the documentation seems to indicate this would just allow for querying of a database the student/teacher has access to https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/application-express/20.2/aeapi/preface.html - given the risk for arbitrary content, removing (we also don't think students/teachers would have access to many if any Oracle databases to use this API).
enclout.com- this is a domain, Entity and Language processing API, we saw cert expired and thus are removing.
herokuapp.com - it was unclear what the original reasoning for this hostname being added - the hostname is a risk to us allowing arbitrary content to be passed to App Lab and has caused multiple reports on the teacher forums.
pastebin.com - this API stores online text, removed as we do not want to support arbitrary text access in our allowed hostnames and such use cases can be met with the data tables in App Lab.
spreadsheets.google.com - This API no longer works as there are no references to it from https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest and we know the sheets API does not work for us due to its forward redirects
Zendesk ticket: https://codedotorg.atlassian.net/browse/STAR-2040