Re: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-07 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hello Akash, may be this can help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10487648/prevent-xss-in-spring-mvc http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12538227/how-to-prevent-xss-attacks-with-springmvc-jackson-application http://jeevanpatil.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/prevention_of_xss/ There is a lot n

Re: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hello Akash, 2014-05-05 22:16 GMT+02:00 Akash Jain akash.delh...@gmail.com: Hello Benedikt, Basically I am using it as XSS prevention mechanism. So I want to use is it safe enough ? As I've said: escapeXml just escapes the basic XML entities. It depends on what you're doing with the

Re: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-06 Thread Akash Jain
ESAPI has given us some problems with other systems we interact with. I am using Java 7 with Spring 3.2 MVC in Tomcat 7. On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: Hello Akash, 2014-05-05 22:16 GMT+02:00 Akash Jain akash.delh...@gmail.com: Hello Benedikt,

RE: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-05 Thread Martin Gainty
if you didnt catch XSS Vector at Javascript as it was coming in from Browser then you can write your own from: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/src-html/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html private static void escapeJavaStyleString(Writer out, String str,

Re: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-05 Thread Akash Jain
Martin, Can you tell me how safe is escapeXml function is ? Thats what I originally wanted to know. Thanks. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Martin Gainty mgai...@hotmail.com wrote: if you didnt catch XSS Vector at Javascript as it was coming in from Browser then you can write your own from:

Re: StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml XX

2014-05-05 Thread Akash Jain
Hello Benedikt, Basically I am using it as XSS prevention mechanism. So I want to use is it safe enough ? I am not very inclined to use ESAPI as XSS protection mechanism, hence I am using escapeXml On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: Hello Akash,