Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

Re:Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output by NohatCoder on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:39AM (#22434182)

No, escape means keep, in HTML for instance Ø would become Ø escaped, but it is still there visible, same as every other character.

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Re:Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output by hombre_fatal on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:23PM (#22435389)

This kind of thinking is how your users end up getting emails from your buggy service like "Hello Østein & friends, ..." and your JSON API consumers encounter the same silly output.

Don't escape input. Escape based on output. Escaping doesn't mean anything until you've also specified an output format. It's not always HTML.

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Re:Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output by NohatCoder on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:17PM (#22438002)

You are grossly misrepresenting my post, I have said nothing about whether the escaping should be applied to input or output, please edit or delete your comment.

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