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By jrandol
via eng.genius.com
Published: Jul 31 2010 / 06:53

Some time ago, Genius Engineering decided to unify the manner in which we encode values that contain user input. We previously depended upon the PHP built-in htmlentities() and some simple wrappers around it for our encoding needs, but this function alone can’t safely sanitize tainted data in all contexts. Furthermore, we didn’t have a unified vision of whether encoding should happen immediately upon receipt of data from the user or when we display that data to the user.
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