Questions tagged [escaping]
Escaping is the process of applying an alternate meaning to a character or set of characters.
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Wielding .NET masterfully to encode non-alphanumeric characters into utf-8 hex representation
I have these two methods that work, but I also hate because they almost certainly can be improved. I'm hoping to gain some guidance from others who are more knowledgable of .NET's offering for ...
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Parse string using character value for Unicode characters
I added the getCValue method to reduce the cyclomatic complexity, but the cyclomatic complexity still persists. How can I reduce it? Can I change this code using ...
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url encoding and storing (JS, PHP, MySQL) [closed]
This question is about how best to encode, send and store information between JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL
I am doing a GET request from HTML/JavaScript to my PHP server, which is then storing the data ...
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Ask for user input and again on the same line
A function that asks for user input according to some criteria and again on the same line if the criteria is not met. It requires that escape character sequences be enable.
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Golang - Splitting a string by a separator not prefixed by an escape string
I need to split a string by a separator but don't want to split if the separator is prefixed by the escape string.
For example:
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Method encodes all less than (<) characters in a HTML string, but not the HTML tags
I am cleaning a HTML string to encode the less than sign (<) to a HTML entity (<), but leaving the HTML tags as they are. An example is converting ...
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binary data shell echo generator
edit: here is a cleaned-up version incorporating most (but not all) feedback, thanks guys; https://gist.github.com/divinity76/79efd7b8c0d7849b956cd194659c98e5
edit2, 2021-07-16: found a bug (possible ...
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Escaping invalid XML characters (e.g. for the Java DOM API)
I want to save and load an arbitrary Java String in a Text node in a XML file using the Java DOM API.
The ...
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Rust echo implementation that supports command line options
I rewrote echo from the manpage to learn Rust, and got the following:
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POSIX+ implementations of echo(1)
Ever wanted a strictly conformant echo(1) implementation on your system? Wait no more: I've built it!
What is it?
My first large-ish body of C code in a while.
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PHP santization of textarea input
My application will accept textarea content that is submitted by a user, and i would like some people to review my code to make sure there is no security vulnerability such as XSS.
My mySQL column ...
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Unquoting booleans, numbers, etc. in a JSON string
I have a method that takes a JSON string as input and "fixes" it. By that, I mean, that the JSON string comes in with all values quoted. My method un-quotes the values that shouldn't be quoted (i.e. ...
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Balanced parenthesis, with backslash escaping
Given a Balanced Parenthesis problem.
"Balanced Parenthesis
Create a program that checks if in a given string expression all the parenthesis are balanced.
For Example:
(test) - valid
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htmlspecialchars() equivalent in C
I'm trying to write an equivalent of PHP's htmlspecialchars() in C. What is my implementation missing or doing wrong?
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Python program that obfuscates an email address
I decided to resume my (limited) Python skills after not coding for a long time.
Here's a very simple self-contained program to convert the characters of an email address into their HTML entities (...
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Displaying text extracted from XML using PHP simplexml
I have this xml file and i am parsing it with php simplexml.
My XML file looks like this:
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Escaped line reader
The idiomatic way of reading lines from a file doesn't work for my purposes because the files I'm dealing with might have lines that are escaped. I came up with the below (which seems to meet my needs)...
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Interpreting strings with C-style escapes
I am working on a compiler that does a pretty heavy work on strings in order to get them correctly displayed. So far I have an algorithm that transforms a given string like (In plaintext):
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A class to stop XML parser from converting UTF-8 entity hex characters
I'm trying to stop the xml parser from converting the UTF-8 enitity hex codes to its character alternative and also not adding the extra space in self-closing nodes after parsing.
I've created a ...
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Sublime Text plugin to modify text before it's pasted
It's my first plugin and it's super simple but there could easily be some things worth knowing from this e.g. Python coding practices and potential bugs.
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XSS Protection from Query Strings in Java
Looking for input on the code below. Generally, the idea is to take a String representing a URL query string such as param1=blah¶m2=blah and encode them to ...
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Decoder for Content-Transfer-Encoding and Quoted-printable
Below are two utility functions I have written to help decode email messages in Mbox format. decodeTransfer decodes the message according to the Content-Transfer-...
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Encoding arbitrary data for stream transmission
Basically, what this function should do is encode an arbitrary set of data in memory to a series of bytes that starts with 0x02, ends with ...
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Escaping characters in a WMI Query
I've knocked up this code to allow me to query for specific service names using PowerShell.
I'm after the executable (PathName) for the service, so the ...
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String escaper in C
As part of my stupidly large project Concaten, I'm writing a string escaper. It's the majority of the part that turns string tokens (like "hello world" or ...
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Raw replacement of space by %20 in Java
I tried coding this for practice. Is there a more memory-efficient way to work in place without using more arrays etc (using raw array operations)?
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Write a method to replace all spaces in a string with %20
I have implemented a solution to this Cracking the Coding Interview question:
Write a method to replace all spaces in a string with %20.
You may assume that the string has sufficient space at the ...
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Escape user input for use in JS regex
I am building a highlight feature for search results on my website and need to escape the user's input so that I could highlight the matching string within the original text.
The function
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Escape Characters for LDAP/ADSI string
Below's some code I knocked up to escape the account name to be used in creating an ADSI reference to an account (e.g. escaping $sAmAccountName before using in <...
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Converting bytes to an escaped hexadecimal string
I wrote this function to convert an array of bytes to a C/C++ string representation using hexadecimal escape codes (\xhh). Any suggestions are welcome:
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Efficient URL Escape (Percent-Encoding)
Here I have a simple algorithm to percent-encode any string.
(Specification from Wikipedia; note that this is not compatible with URLEncoder.encode())
Is this an ...
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Escape some char in a byte array
I am trying to construct a binary message packet. It needs to escape binary value 0 by appending extra 0 in front of it:
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My method of escaping MySQL strings in C++
This is how I'm currently escaping MySQL strings in C++:
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Preventing XSS attacks with proper escaping
The following page simulates XSS attacks and successfully (?) prevents them. I want to know if I've missed any other major attack vectors (or small ones) and/or if anyone has suggestions as to ...
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Escaping photo caption to avoid cross site script attack
I am a PHP newbie and this is part of a gallery code. I recently read about SQL injection and cross site scripting attack, I am trying to avoid that by html escaping on dynamically produced data. I am ...
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Sanitzing input on form submit with PHP
I was hacking around this morning and wanting to use automatically generate safe-to-use variables from $_POST. Probably not the best use of ...
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Is this escape unescape function pair correct?
Is this example of an escape - unescape function correct?
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Functions to escape CSS rules in PHP
Some context
I've been tasked with supplying an escaping function to arbitrary CSS values that are entered through a form. The goals and caveats are:
I know it's bad practice to let users input CSS. ...
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More Pythonic version of finding substring with one glob-like expression
Giving the following example list the task is: find out whether the
second expression is in the first one. * shall be considered as a
wildcard for any character ...
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