Invitation webfield: Runtime Error when displaying the webfield code about openreview-web HOT 5 CLOSED

this is a tough one
it is executing window.location and window object is null thus the complain.
i've thought it's related to the way next or react handles dom manipulation until i notice this in invitation.js

removing the assignment of document and window will make the error go away
but i don't know what these two lines are for.
@zbialecki

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This code was added as a temporary security measure to prevent webfield code written by third parties from accessing the global objects and doing bad things (like redirecting to a phishing site or something). I think that we can remove these lines however, since 1) we are still writing all the webfields and 2) the real solution for securely running 3rd party code is to run it in an iframe in a sandboxed environment.

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I'm actually surprised that this webfield works in the live site at all. I would expect any reference to window or document to throw an error. A search of openreview-py shows that this template is the only place that either of those vars are used, so I think the real solution for now would be to change that line of code in the webfield to just use location, not window.location

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as discussed in daily meeting, this issue has been assigned to Mohit to make the changes in webfield code.
@mohituniyal
at the top melisa has the link she used to test

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Fixed by openreview/openreview-py#706

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