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XSS is properly handled by encoding the text that comes from or that is interpolated with text that comes from the user. How to encode text depends on the context (encoding output for JavaScript is different from encoding output for an XML attribute value). "Cleaning the data" is a hack, which often turns out to be easier than encoding text for output when your language/stdlib/framework doesn't encode text automatically and doesn't provide a convenient way to encode text manually.

yfeldblum
– yfeldblum

2011-02-10 14:34:10 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2011 at 14:34

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