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14th November 2007 - Link Blog

Django Changeset 6671. Malcolm Tredinnick: “Implemented auto-escaping of variable output in templates”. Fantastic—Django now has protection against accidental XSS holes, turned on by default.

Posted 14th November 2007 at 5:05 pm

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