On 1/12/06, Simon Willison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thinking about this further, it could result in a security hole. If a
> filter that removes dangerous markup failed silently and that markup
> was spewed on to a page it could lead to an XSS vulnerability.

I would hope that the author of such a filter would take the "return
an empty string" option; if you can't securely filter the output, it'd
be better not to output at all.


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