"it's a gross oversimplification to assume that the transformation to be 
applied to user data is to HTML escape it"

Can you elaborate on this please?

If I put <script> into a field and the app html escapes it when it's output on 
the next page, there's no issue.  Where is the oversimplification?



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike McNally [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:01 AM
To: Stripes Users List
Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] Is XSS filter still needed?

In my opinion that filter is a terrible idea anyway. XSS is a real
concern, but it's a gross oversimplification to assume that the
transformation to be applied to user data is to HTML escape it.



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