4 Like anything that claims to afford security, HTML_Purifier can be circumvented
5 through negligence of people. This class will do its job: no more, no less,
6 and it's up to you to provide it the proper information and proper context
7 to be effective. Things to remember:
9 1. UTF-8. Currently, the parser runs under the assumption that it is dealing
10 with UTF-8. Not ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252, UTF-8. And definitely not "no
11 character encoding explicitly stated" or UTF-7. If you're not using UTF-8 as
12 your character encoding, you should switch. Now. (in future versions, however,
13 I may make the character encoding configurable, but there's only so much I
14 can do). Make sure any input is properly converted to UTF-8, or the parser
15 will mangle it badly (though it won't be a security risk if you're outputting
18 2. XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is what the parser is outputting. For the most
19 part, it's compatible with HTML 4.01, but XHTML enforces some very nice things
20 that all web developers should use. Regardless, NO DOCTYPE is a NO. Quirks mode
21 has waaaay too many quirks for a little parser to handle. We did not select
22 strict in order to prevent ourselves from being too draconic on users, but
23 this may be configurable in the future.
25 3. IDs. They need to be unique, but without some knowledge of the
26 rest of the document, it's difficult to know what's unique. Without setting
27 %Attr.IDBlacklist to the proper
29 4. [PROJECTED] Links. We're not going to try for spam protection (although
30 some hooks for such a module might be nice) but we may offer the ability to
31 only accept relative URLs. Pick the one that's right for you.
33 5. CSS. While we can prevent the most flagrant cases from affecting your
34 layout (such as absolutely positioned elements), no amount of code is going
35 to protect your pages from being attacked by garish colors and plain old
36 bad taste. A neat feature would be the ability to define acceptable colors
37 in a document, but that's not likely to be implemented for a while. In the
38 meantime, be sure to make sure that floated elements (permitted, since they
39 can be quite useful) cna't mess up your layout.