greetings, I'm a new to perl developer and I just wanted to confirm there is no ESAPI implementation for Perl?
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/ESAPI

Is there something most use in lieu of that? I see there are a number of misc modules out there for handling security issues. I guess I'm looking for a standard accepted and vetted implementation vs. starting to grab random modules off CPAN and cobble something together. I have no wish to reinvent the wheel or use something that's not well tested and kept up to date.

I have to write an application for a client that among a number of other things, finishes with doing 302 redirects to arbitrary urls, urls could be anything.

I'm not 100% clear myself what could be harmful in this particular context, and the client wants users to more or less be able to specify almost anything to redirect to. So I'm hoping to find a security library to run the urls through prior to redirect.

cheers

In reply to :OWASP ESAPI Implementation for Perl? by dannyboy1234

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