cgiDebug(3) Programmer's Manual cgiDebug(3) NAME cgiEscape - HTML escape certain characters in a string SYNOPSYS #include <cgi.h> char *cgiEscape (char *string); DESCRIPTION This function returns a pointer to a sanitised string. It converts <, & and > into HTML entities so that the result can be displayed without any danger of cross-site scripting in a browser. The result may be passed to free(3) after use. This routine is meant to be called before any user provided strings are returned to the browser. RETURN VALUE cgiEscape() returns a pointer to the sanitised string or NULL in case of error. AUTHOR This CGi library is written by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. If you have additions or improvements please get in touch with him. SEE ALSO free(3). CGI Library 6 April 2008 cgiDebug(3)[top]
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