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authorAndrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>2015-10-12 16:16:35 +0200
committerAndrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>2015-10-12 16:16:35 +0200
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XSS Filtering
*************
-CodeIgniter comes with a Cross Site Scripting Hack prevention filter
-which can either run automatically to filter all POST and COOKIE data
-that is encountered, or you can run it on a per item basis. By default
-it does **not** run globally since it requires a bit of processing
-overhead, and since you may not need it in all cases.
-
-The XSS filter looks for commonly used techniques to trigger Javascript
-or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies or do other
-malicious things. If anything disallowed is encountered it is rendered
-safe by converting the data to character entities.
-
-Note: This function should only be used to deal with data upon
-submission. It's not something that should be used for general runtime
-processing since it requires a fair amount of processing overhead.
+CodeIgniter comes with a Cross Site Scripting prevention filter, which
+looks for commonly used techniques to trigger JavaScript or other types
+of code that attempt to hijack cookies or do other malicious things.
+If anything disallowed is encountered it is rendered safe by converting
+the data to character entities.
To filter data through the XSS filter use the ``xss_clean()`` method::