Re: [tlug] Do you whitelist or blacklist utf-8?

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 24 February 2011 11:48, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Some of the languages have restricted execution modes (python's has
> been deprecated but Perl has "taint mode", although I've heard that it
> is very hard to use in a real app).

Tainting is in fact hard to use in real life.

Ruby has "safe levels", which are more flexible, though the "safest"
seem to me to be likely as frustrating as Perl tainting in a real app.
Thus far, I've not tried it in Ruby.

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Cheers,
Josh