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10th January 2008 - Link Blog

Is your Rails app XSS safe? SafeErb is an interesting take on auto-escaping for Rails: it throws an exception if you try to render a string that hasn’t been untainted yet.

Posted 10th January 2008 at 6:46 pm

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