NAME

String::Clean::XSS - Clean up for Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

SYNOPSIS

Clean strings to protect from XSS attacks.

EXAMPLES

            

              
              
use String::Clean::XSS;
my $stuff_from_user = '<script>bad stuff</script>';
my $safe_login    = convert_XSS($stuff_from_user);
# results in '&lt;script&gt;bad stuff&lt;/script&gt;'
my $cleaned_login = clean_XSS($stuff_from_user);
$ results in 'scriptbad stuff/script'
            
          

FUNCTIONS

clean_XSS

            

              
              
clean_XSS( $string );
            
          

Removes angle brackets from the given string.

convert_XSS

            

              
              
convert_XSS( $string );
            
          

Converts angle brackets to there HTML entities.

AUTHOR

ben hengst, <notbenh at CPAN.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-string-clean at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=String-Clean. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

            

              
              
perldoc String::Clean
            
          

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=String-Clean

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/String-Clean

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/String-Clean

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Clean

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007 ben hengst, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.