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Talk:Sanitization rules

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Revision as of 03:48, 9 August 2007 by Rubys (talk | contribs) (suggest that data URIs require further sanitization)
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Is the data URI scheme safe?

  • Rob Sayre says no and refers to a wikipedia article; however, I cannot see anything in the article that indicates the scheme is not safe.
    • Looking at that wikipedia page, data could only be added if it were followed by an asterisk, kinda like the 756* that I see popping up all over the place these days. In particular, I don't see the use case which would justify the investment in sanitizing text/html encoded as a data URI. Not that it would be difficult, just hard to justify. Perhaps a section could be added which lists safe content types when included in data URIs. -- Rubys 03:48, 9 August 2007 (UTC)