I have some ideas for modules, which from a cursory search on CPAN do not seem to exist, but which I think might be very useful.

If you don't understand the title, imagine this:

  tie $input, Tie::HTMLEncode;

  $input = "<script>alert(\"Boo!\")</script>";

  print $input; # outputs &lt;script&gt;alert("Boo!")&lt;/script&gt;

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Is there already such a module? (I know there are already modules that encode; I'm asking if one is done through tie.) Would you find it useful?

The idea came to me from the article at perl.com on Cross-Site Scripting.

In reply to Module Ideas - Tie::HTMLencode and Tie::UrlEncode by rrwo

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