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by colomon 4881 days ago
As jbert pointed out, if your program's main job is to say whether or not something is safe, and it liberally says "Oh yeah, I think that's safe", that's pretty much the exact opposite of "be conservative in what you do".
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Please explain the proper way of escaping/rejecting html in forum posts, when you can't rely on the browsers following the spec.