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author | Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> | 2015-09-01 11:07:25 +0200 |
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committer | Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> | 2015-09-01 11:07:25 +0200 |
commit | 61ac7bdd8291251f5709a3212b234ea5030340ef (patch) | |
tree | 043569d4f5f0a22fe4672bc2c30ccc0c39250851 /user_guide_src/source | |
parent | 52a2defaff4717e359e5c0ac56704b3e64187b7b (diff) |
[ci skip] Reduce/improve wording of xss_clean() description
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-rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst index 2cbe46f4d..f7604ef00 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst @@ -16,16 +16,11 @@ application, processing input data for security. 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. +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:: |