webmcp
view framework/env/encode/html.lua @ 28:ea2e8f3a2776
allow webmcp path to be set in cgi script
this allows another script to include the webmcp script when the cwd is not the cgi-bin. the script needs to set the WEBMCP_PATH variable.
this allows another script to include the webmcp script when the cwd is not the cgi-bin. the script needs to set the WEBMCP_PATH variable.
| author | Daniel Poelzleithner <poelzi@poelzi.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun Sep 19 01:36:08 2010 +0200 (2010-09-19) |
| 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