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

Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 14:08, 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?

Having read the thread, I don't think that's enough for me. I want to still 
need to explicitly specify "ESCAPE=HTML" everywhere (without having a default 
escape), to have an exception raised on a non-escaped occurence, and to add 
an explicit unescaping (like "ESCAPE="0"").

Anything less than that will make the transition to the new code harder, and 
more error-prone.

So I guess I'm going to fire up my editor and write an HTML::Template 
sub-class.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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