On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:20:52PM -0000, Tom.Donovan (at) acm (dot) org [email concealed] wrote:
> It appears there is little that web servers can do to thwart this,
> short of changing all '+' characters to %2B. That seems excessive.
To be fair, this is what Microsoft has recommended, explicitly for the
purpose of preventing XSS, for *at least* the last 6 years. The library
I use does indeed encode "+" as "+".
> It appears there is little that web servers can do to thwart this,
> short of changing all '+' characters to %2B. That seems excessive.
To be fair, this is what Microsoft has recommended, explicitly for the
purpose of preventing XSS, for *at least* the last 6 years. The library
I use does indeed encode "+" as "+".
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