[imp] Inline HTML Safe?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Jun 18 13:13:57 PDT 2003


Quoting Lee <lee at disinfo.com>:

> a) Why can't the insecurity of inline html be simply filtered out by a
> regular expression?

Because what browsers accept as valid javascript is *$@#(*@$& INSANE.

> b) Are there any filters or checks already in the imp code to secure
> inline html?

Yes. We just refuse to guarantee that it catches everything.

-chuck

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