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Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had asked:
> > Does ht://Dig filter the text returned by $&(LOGICAL_WORDS) ?
> >
> > I have in mind a number of possible evil exploits of echoing
> > this in a page (though I don't have or want the skills to
> > implement them).
> 
> LOGICAL_WORDS is built up from the search query, so it's completely 
> filtered. At one point, there were problems with WORDS because it 
> essentially came from the search query.
> 
> Also remember that the $&(VAR) syntax will HTML-escape everything, so 
> things like <script> won't become markup tags, but rather &lt;script&gt;

D'oh! I realised that about $&(LOGICAL_WORDS) and $(LOGICAL_WORDS) after
I posted. 

So I gather the answer is that all is well; WORDS is filtered too, and 
if that's not perfect one can be safe by using $&(WORDS) and quoting it 
only within the <TITLE> or <INPUT>.

Thanks for the reassurance.

Mike



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