String::Clean::XSS(3)

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.