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Re: whitelisting HTML tags


From: Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:17:50 +0000



Jeff Robertson wrote:
I need to tell my development to limit the HTML tags allowed in input to a
subset that can't be used for XSS.

Can you simply limit your input to character markup tags like
<b>, <i> etc?

Rich.
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Richard Moore, Principal Software Engineer,
Westpoint Ltd,
Albion Wharf, 19 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5LN, England
Tel: +44 161 237 1028
Fax: +44 161 237 1031


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