Re: option to turn ESCAPE=HTML on by default

Paul Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> I'm curious about what other people think about an option to
> turn ESCAPE=HTML on default, to protect against cross script scripting
> practices by default.

OMG YES!! 95% of all my vars have ESCAPE=HTML on them. Making this the 
default would take away a lot of extra typing. But to turn it off for 
the 5% I don't need escaped, ESCAPE=0 or ESCAPE=NONE or ESCAPE=NO would 
be better.


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