[WEB SECURITY] question about anti-xss applicability of PHP's …

Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment

Hi all,I’ve been trusting PHP’s htmlentities() to escape to HTML for a long time now on several customer site and I want to be sure that it’s secure. I am specifying UTF-8 as my charset in XHTML headers, so I don’t think alternative …

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Lets examine security.

Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment

Encode all posts or user inputed data. You’ll have to sanitize user input, by disabling users the ability to put HTML tags & Javascript on pages, this is called escaping. Javascript escape(); Parse all HTML data as to make sure code …

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How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server

Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under programming | Leave a Comment

responseText.substring(18,58); } function ShowTicket() { var ticket = GetTicket(); alert(ticket); } function GoPlugin() { var ticket = GetTicket(); window.open(”/QvPlugin/opendoc.htm?document=”+ escape(document. …

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Wordpress Gallery - Nasty PHP Authentication Handling

Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment

Easy transparent PHP input filtering I have been working on a site that will have potentially quite a few random third parties accessing it and inserting data into a MySQL database. I am thus quite keen on a good solid input filtering …

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Easy transparent PHP input filtering

Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment

I am thus quite keen on a good solid input filtering method for PHP to prevent things like XSS and SQL Injection. There are several options out there, of the ones I found Inspekt is about the closest match to my way of working, …

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[Privacy] Re: Tor, IP privacy?

Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment

This is however, *both* input filtering and output filtering. You are input filtering the content that will later (presumably) be output to the user, and output filtering the SQL query. As for me, I prefer output filtering. Why? …
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Security Corner: SQL Injection

Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment

Input Filtering. This article assumes magic_quotes_gpc is disabled. If it is enabled, you can disable it or use the fix_magic_quotes() function to repair the input. There are best practices that you should follow to prevent SQL …
Excerpt from:Security Corner: SQL Injection

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Ceramic Input Capacitors Can Cause Overvoltage Transients

Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment

When it comes to input filtering, ceramic capacitors are a great choice. They offer high ripple current rating and low ESR and ESL . Also, ceramic capacitors are not very sensitive to over voltage and can be used without derating the …
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PHP Advent Calendar Day 13

Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment

Because we\’re a MySpace-like social network, we have to base our input filtering of certain fields on a blacklist of illegal tags, properties, and URLs instead of a whitelist of allowed tags (which is more common among many libraries). …
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Ed Finkler's Blog: Inspekt 0.3 now available

Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment

I\’ve uploaded the 0.3 release of Inspekt, the input filtering and validation library for PHP4 and 5. With this release, Inspekt completes the goals of the original specification for the OWASP SpoC007 project. …
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