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

"Dan Horne" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template
Message-ID <00b801c6f922$212624b0$6503a8c0@rdbnnote01>
> From: [email protected] [mailto:html-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Frazier
> 
> This is pretty topical for me, but a little off topic for HTML::Template..
> I was looking for a good example on how to do this filtering. In the Perl
> world I found HTML::StripScripts
> and it looked like a good idea at the time sort of thing, it just seemed
> too good/complex for me. Like the best way to do things, but I don't have
> time for that :)
> 

Another option for santising input is HTML::Scrubber
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Scrubber/). I use it via the
Data::FormValidator filter Data::FormValidator::Filters::HTMLScrubber to
remove not just scripts but tags that I don't want users to supply (like
"font").

Dan


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