Chris Welch wrote:
I thought the deal with writing to external files and such
(remember some things will be written to flat files as well as DBM
files) is that it is a security issue if no checking is done for
malicious script -
I think you are mixing up things. Data is just data. If
1) the data
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:43:44 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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> Chris Welch wrote:
> > I have a form and someone submits weird stuff that probably
> > shouldn't be in there (but you never know.) This has to be writted
> > to a DBM database/ filehandle.
> >
> > The weird stuff n
Chris Welch wrote:
Right the deal is thus - if I am getting the wrong end of the
stick, feel free to beat me over the head with said stick.
Okay, I'll see what I can do. :)
I have a form and someone submits weird stuff that probably
shouldn't be in there (but you never know.) This has to be writte
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:43:10 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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> Chris Welch wrote:
> > Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >> Chris Welch wrote:
> >>> I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI form
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Chris Welch wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
Chris Welch wrote:
I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI forms and I need to come
up with a regex that will accept HTML entities (i.e., " or
{),
Your description makes
Basically I am going to turn some funny characters into HTML entities
using the aforementioned HTML::Entities so I can display them in a
HTML page. I therefore need to accept them, but also the other chars.
I don't want to allow people posting dodgy stuff that is going to be
damaging...
As far as
Chris Welch wrote:
I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI forms and I need to come up
with a regex that will accept HTML entities (i.e., " or
{),
Your description makes me fear that you are somewhat off track. *Why*
would you need such a regex?
If you explain more about the context, it would be easi
Chris Welch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI forms and I need to come up with
> a regex that will accept HTML entities
Have a look at the HTML::Entities module source code for regexes. If you're
just trying to decode entities, use this module instead of rolling your own.
ht
Hi,
I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI forms and I need to come up with
a regex that will accept HTML entities (i.e., " or {), white
space, some other chars and text... The regex I've come up with is
flawed:
m/^&#?\w{2,4};|[EMAIL PROTECTED],\(\)\/\[\]:;\?!]+$/g;
This will match and ampersand
