Re: Suggestion on how to eliminate Cross-site-scripting (XSS) bugs for good.

Tom Heady <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Kapranoff wrote:
> * Michael Peters <[email protected]> [October 17 2006, 17:01]:
>> Alex Kapranoff wrote:
>>> * Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> [October 17 2006, 14:23]:
>>>> Now what I want is to sub-class HTML::Template so we'll always have to 
>>>> use "ESCAPE=HTML". If we want to override it we'll need to do the following:
>>> There's `default_escape' option in recent HTML::Template. Is it not
>>> enough?
>> I think if you use default_escape => 'HTML' that would get him most of the way.
>> But there should be a way to turn off escaping when you know the var will
>> contain HTML. So maybe an escape="none" option?
> 
> ESCAPE="0" works for now.
> 

Actually, I found that turning off escaping (ESCAPE="0") does not work 
if you specify a default escape.

See http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18274 for more details 
and a fix.

---Tom


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