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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: jacques-distler</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/jacques-distler.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-03-12T00:34:16+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>XSS</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/12/xss/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-03-12T00:34:16+00:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T00:34:16+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/12/xss/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/001181.html"&gt;XSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Sanitising HTML is an extremely hard problem. The sanitize helper that ships with Rails is completely broken;  Jacques Distler provides a better alternative.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jacques-distler"&gt;jacques-distler&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails"&gt;rails&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security"&gt;security&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xss"&gt;xss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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