From: Jakub Narebski Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:26:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Protect escaping functions against calling on undef Message-ID: <201002171726.53418.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100207205130.11146.30664.stgit@localhost.localdomain> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote: > This is a bit of future-proofing esc_html and friends: when called > with undefined value they would now would return undef... which would > probably mean that error would still occur, but closer to the source > of problem. > > This means that we can safely use > esc_html(shift) || "Internal Server Error" > in die_error() instead of > esc_html(shift || "Internal Server Error") > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski > --- > Without the second part (i.e. the change in die_error) those two > patches would be totally independent. Ping! All but last chunk (last chunk depends on PATCH 1/2) are a bit of hardening / defensive programming... although currently not necessary (gitweb doesn't pass undef to its escaping subroutines... I think). -- Jakub Narebski Poland