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view framework/env/encode/html.lua @ 221:25a20bd1f416
More work on Moonbridge integration: several changes in env/request
| author | jbe |
|---|---|
| date | Wed Feb 25 01:33:27 2015 +0100 (2015-02-25) |
| parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 |
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1 --[[--
2 result = -- encoded string
3 encode.html(
4 str -- original string
5 )
7 This function replaces the special characters '<', '>', '&' and '"' by their HTML entities '<', '&rt;', '&' and '"'.
9 NOTE: ACCELERATED FUNCTION
10 Do not change unless also you also update webmcp_accelerator.c
12 --]]--
14 function encode.html(text)
15 -- TODO: perhaps filter evil control characters?
16 return (
17 string.gsub(
18 text, '[<>&"]',
19 function(char)
20 if char == '<' then
21 return "<"
22 elseif char == '>' then
23 return ">"
24 elseif char == '&' then
25 return "&"
26 elseif char == '"' then
27 return """
28 end
29 end
30 )
31 )
32 end