X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/1ca191b5707ef38af5cbe196e314d57cd5c8c065..ee84df87047334f3614a2b53b6175a09377a1334:/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index c59b46e14..08c81212b 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ to avoid XSS attacks and the like. It excludes all html tags and attributes except for those that are whitelisted using the same lists as used by Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed -Parser, documented at . +Parser, documented at +. Notably it strips `style` and `link` tags, and the `style` attribute. -All attributes that can be used to specify an url are checked to make sure -that the url is in a known, safe scheme, and to block embedded javascript -in such urls. +Any attributes that could be used to specify a URL are checked to ensure +that they are known, safe schemes. It will also block embedded javascript +in such URLs. It uses the [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]] perl module to perform its html sanitisation, and this perl module also deals with various entity encoding @@ -32,10 +33,11 @@ other HTML-related functionality, such as whether [[meta]] allows potentially unsafe HTML tags. The `htmlscrubber_skip` configuration setting can be used to skip scrubbing -of some pages. Set it to a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], such as "!*/Discussion", -and pages matching that can have all the evil CSS, JavsScript, and unsafe -html elements you like. One safe way to use this is to use [[lockedit]] to -lock those pages, so only admins can edit them. +of some pages. Set it to a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], such as +`posts/* and !comment(*) and !*/Discussion`, and pages matching that can have +all the evil CSS, JavsScript, and unsafe html elements you like. One safe +way to use this is to use [[lockedit]] to lock those pages, so only admins +can edit them. ----