NAME¶

cgiEscape - HTML escape certain characters in a string

SYNOPSYS¶

#include <cgi.h>

char *cgiEscape (char *string);

DESCRIPTION¶

This function returns a pointer to a sanitised string. It converts <, & and > into HTML entities so that the result can be displayed without any danger of cross-site scripting in a browser. The result may be passed to free(3) after use. This routine is meant to be called before any user provided strings are returned to the browser.

RETURN VALUE¶

cgiEscape() returns a pointer to the sanitised string or NULL in case of error.

AUTHOR¶

This CGi library is written by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. If you have additions or improvements please get in touch with him.

SEE ALSO¶

free(3).