Displaying Formatted User Input

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Ying Zhang This document describes how to display safely formatted output from user input. We will discuss the dangers of displaying unfiltered output and then provide a safe means of displaying formatted output. Download ying20000718.zip and extract it into your web documents directory. Dangers of Unfiltered Output If you just took the user's input and displayed it as is, you may break your webpage. For example, someone can maliciously embed javascript in their comment like: This is my...n

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