"The irony is that all of the bugs reported to Google so far were specific to the "extra security" layer implemented on top of JRE that aimed to protect GAE against...security vulnerabilities in Java," the team noted, adding:Ouch."At the end, it's worth to note that we are completely aware that this publication may lead to the canceling of additional VRP rewards from Google."
Just to kick the tires, some years ago, I put up an App Engine app. I used Python, Java being way too big of a PITA.
One of my endpoints is /ipAddress. It's kinda handy. Wherever I am, I can hit it, and it echoes back my WAN address (for those of you in Rio Linda, that's your IP address, as seen by the internet, as opposed to your local network).
I still use it. E.g., here's an example:
iploc $(wget -o /dev/null -O - "http://[some name].appspot.com/ipAddress")
What does that do?
Well, it obtains my address via some name, my Google App Engine app, and feeds it to iploc, another little hack I have, which looks it up in the latest version of Maxmind.com's internet location database and tells me where Maxmind thinks I am.