When are those eaten? Are you really sure they are eaten by CGI.pm ? I kinda doubt it.

If you enter a < into the textarea and submit it, what does the file contain? Download it by the FTP and look at what was actually stored in the file! If you then go back to edit that file, what do you see in the text area? Doesn't this eating happen a bit later than you thought? And do you escape the text for HTML while producing the form page? You should!

Jenda
XML sucks. Badly. SOAP on the other hand is the most powerfull vacuum pump ever invented.

In reply to Re: CGI module seems to eat html entities! by Jenda
in thread CGI module seems to eat html entities! by muba

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