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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Change to use explicitly function call cgi->escapHTML()

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 6, 2007, 10:56 UTC
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<20070306105629.GA13285@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:53:07AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> But then you are letting _other_ mod_perl users to affect your
> behaviour, aren't you?  "sub autoEscape" does this:

Yes (but I don't know how mod_perl works, and I haven't been able to find a simple answer by skimming the docs).

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> If we worry about mod_perl (provided if $CGI::Q is shared across
> mod_perl users), I suspect we would need to be a bit more
> paranoid, perhaps like this, woudln't we?
> [...]
> +$cgi->autoEscape(1);

That rebreaks the original problem, though. Calling escapeHTML doesn't look at $cgi, it looks at $Q (the "default" CGI object). I believe escape is _already_ set to 1 for $cgi (which is why the $cgi->escapeHTML patch worked).

-Peff
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Message 9 of 21 in “gitweb: Change to use explicitly function call cgi->escapHTML()”
  1. gitweb: Change to use explicitly function call cgi->escapHTML()Li Yang, Mar 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  3. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2007
  4. Jeff KingMar 6, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  6. Li Yang-r58472Mar 6, 2007
  7. Jeff KingMar 6, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  9. Jeff KingMar 6, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  11. Jeff KingMar 6, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  13. Jeff KingMar 6, 2007
  14. Li Yang-r58472Mar 6, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  16. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2007
  18. Jakub NarebskiMar 7, 2007
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2007
  20. gitweb: Don't escape attributes in CGI.pm HTML methodsJakub Narebski, Mar 7, 2007
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2007

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