• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You should tell that to OWASP then, they wrote it. org.owasp.esapi 2.5.2.0, class is Encoder, method is canonicalize(String, bool, bool)

    • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      This method is a band-aid patch when your downstream code is all messed up and you can’t fix it. Instead of treating the input string correctly, it just removes anything that might possibly trigger some vulnerability in wrong code.