Re: err_html_text

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 22:26:00 +0100

Right. The implementation of err_html_text got broken when we fixed the
cross-site-scripting issues.

There is a "do_quote = 0" missing from the code segment implementing %L

Fixing this in HEAD and 2.5 now..

Regards
Henrik

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 00.04, Joe Cooper wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm a bit confused by the err_html_text configuration directive. It is
> escaping all special characters...I can see how this would be useful if
> /only/ a URL is supposed to go there--but why call it err_html_text and
> explain in the documentation that it is for "HTML text to include in
> error messages". If you put HTML text in this field it is converted
> into an escaped string, which is distinctly not HTML.
>
> I'll submit a patch to change the documentation if this is the way it is
> supposed to act...if it shouldn't be acting this way, then I'll give a
> go to altering it (but my perusal of errorpage.c and MemBuf.c are not
> giving indicators about where the escaping is happening).
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