Any word on the progress of this fix or how long it might be until it
is done?

Thanks,
-Nic

On Mar 14, 7:16 am, hewbrocca <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is not working out how to unescape HTML -- CE already stores
> safe HTML unescaped in its database, having passed it through WhiteList
> before storing it to ensure that it is not, in fact, malicious. The problem
> is deciding when and how to override Haml's default escaping of HTML it
> sends to the browser. The safe thing to do is probably to override HTML
> escaping only where it's needed (preserve sanitized user formatting, etc.),
> but you could argue that since CE is very careful about what it already
> stores in the database and sends to the browser, you don't need the extra
> level of protection from Rails/Haml. I'm hoping Bruno will weigh in and
> suggest the right way to handle this such that he would accept a patch.
>
> --Hugh

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