(cc'ing d...@apr since that's where the vformatter lives) On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:54:13AM -0600, William Rowe wrote: > Trying to come up with ways to process large entries without > so much copying. > > My thought for 2.4 is to introduce an apr_vformatter code > modifier, '#', into the s syntax. e.g. %#s would normalize > any control codes into \x## or \c syntax, as appropriate. > And %#.10s would print a fixed 10 char string including \0 > characters (a problem I encountered trying to make dumpio > a little more efficient).
It does sound tempting - is there a one-size-fits-all escaping logic, though? Not sure where you'd stop otherwise... what about non-ASCII characters... why not have the HTML-escaping logic in there too? There are what, four different string-escaping routines in httpd now? It's quite a lot of code. Regards, Joe
