What about just 'trust_html'? The dangerous part is quite context dependent (and a bit of mouth-full), but at the core you are trusting the HTML. Hopefully it follows that you should not trust html with user input that hasn't been escaped.
On 22 Feb 2018 13:10, "Anthony King" <anthonydk...@gmail.com> wrote: I entirely agree with renaming `mark_safe`. Though it's name is correct, it doesn't convey the gravity of what this actually does. However I'm unsure on the `dangerously_trust_html` name. It wouldn't be dangerous to trust the literal "<small>Some Content</small>", for example. Perhaps it could be something a bit more explicit. `no_escape(string)`? This assumes that most have at least heard of escaping. On 22 February 2018 at 12:16, Josh Smeaton <josh.smea...@gmail.com> wrote: > The concern isn't overusing an API. It's not understanding the proper use > case for it. > > "mark safe" can sound like the API is doing sanitation so it can encourage > developers to use it incorrectly. I'm fairly sure I've done this myself. > > The intended meaning is "this output is **already** safe" but the name > doesn't convey that meaning clearly enough. > > What the proposal is designed to do is convey the "I trust this output" > meaning of the API. I'm just wary of enforcing users to change code when > they already use the API correctly. > > On Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:08:31 UTC+11, Florian Apolloner wrote: >> >> Yeah, I am also worried about the churn for no gain in my eyes. If users >> overuse mark_safe, they will overuse dangerously_trust_html too… >> >> On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 10:41:15 PM UTC+1, Josh Smeaton wrote: >>> >>> I agree that the names are misleading and we should probably provide >>> better names. I'm wary of deprecating the old names because it'll create a >>> lot of churn (some of which would be the right thing to do). Maybe we could >>> just alias and warn when using the old name, leaving a decision on >>> deprecation until some time in the future. >>> >>> On Monday, 29 January 2018 03:14:27 UTC+11, Stuart Cox wrote: >>>> >>>> In my experience, misuse of mark_safe() — i.e. marking stuff safe >>>> which *isn’t* actually safe (e.g. HTML from a rich text input) — is >>>> one of the biggest causes of XSS vulnerabilities in Django projects. >>>> >>>> The docs warn to be careful, but unfortunately I think Django devs have >>>> just got too used to mark_safe() being *the way* to insert HTML in a >>>> template. And it’s easy for something that was safe when it was authored >>>> (e.g. calling mark_safe() on a hard-coded string) to be copied / >>>> repurposed / adapted into a case which is no longer be safe (e.g. that >>>> string replaced with a user-provided value). >>>> >>>> Some other frameworks use scary sounding names to help reinforce that >>>> there are dangers around similar features, and that this isn’t something >>>> you should use in everyday work — e.g. React’s dangerouslySetInnerHTML. >>>> >>>> Relatedly, this topic >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/c4fa2pOcHxo/EtT942WnyiAJ> >>>> suggested >>>> making it more explicit that mark_safe() refers to being safe for use >>>> in *HTML* contexts (rather than JS, CSS, SQL, etc). >>>> >>>> Combining the two, it would be great if Django could rename mark_safe() to >>>> dangerously_trust_html(), |safe to |dangerously_trust_html, >>>> @csrf_exempt to @dangerously_csrf_exempt, etc. >>>> >>>> Developers who know what they’re doing with these could then be >>>> encouraged to create suitable wrappers which handle their use case safely >>>> internally — e.g.: >>>> >>>> @register.filter >>>> def sanitize_and_trust_html(value): >>>> # Safe because we sanitize before trusting >>>> return dangerously_trust_html(bleach.clean(value)) >>>> >>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/django-developers/db4ac958-89e1-4286-a616-99e9854c9bbb% > 40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/db4ac958-89e1-4286-a616-99e9854c9bbb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. 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