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Re: Very strange server behavior today
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Date: 
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:56:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Michael Huffman wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Gereon Stein wrote:
Your mention of FTX in posts and the issues this generates for NNTP access
have some ideas coming to my mind, though... ;)

The easiest solution would be to convert FTX in NNTP message files into HTML;
most NNTP browsers understand embedded HTML.  And then rewrite the web-posting
modules to convert FTX to "safe" HTML (ie. rejecting JavaScript injection or
other types of XSS attacks).

That's a really good idea, Michael.  There is already an internal function
for rendering FTX as HTML, which could be reused for this.  It might be a good
idea to filter out any JS injection attempts in URLs, which would benefit the
web-based interface as well.

The HTML could then be wrapped into a MIME container and the NNTP message could
be given in both its original unaltered form and the converted HTML form.

--Todd



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(...) The easiest solution would be to convert FTX in NNTP message files into HTML; most NNTP browsers understand embedded HTML. And then rewrite the web-posting modules to convert FTX to "safe" HTML (ie. rejecting JavaScript injection or other (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)

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