thanks for the replies.

Basically I want a library I can run a url through before I redirect to it, to ensure it's not some type of security risk that I am unaware of.

I've talked to the client more it looks like I will be able to maintain a list of safe domains, but the url itself could be anything. So basically if the domain is found I'd like to run the url through some function prior to redirect. I don't care if the function makes it safe or just tells me it's unsafe, I could handle either case.

I guess if it could remove anything from say xss cheat
http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
sheet that would be a starting point, but I'm not confident that's all that would need to be addressed in this context, thus I'm hoping for some type of vetted library.

Looks like HTML::Defang is one candidate but it only handles a url in an html (attribute only?) context from what I can see.

In reply to Re^2: :OWASP ESAPI Implementation for Perl? by dannyboy1234
in thread :OWASP ESAPI Implementation for Perl? by dannyboy1234

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