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authorMichael Merickel <michael@merickel.org>2011-05-27 03:37:22 -0500
committerMichael Merickel <michael@merickel.org>2011-05-27 03:37:22 -0500
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Attempt to fix issue #193 by setting mako default filter to 'h'.
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@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ Minor Feature Additions
Deprecations and Behavior Differences
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+- The default Mako renderer is now configured to escape all HTML in
+ expression tags. This is intended to help prevent XSS attacks caused by
+ rendering unsanitized input from users. To revert this behavior in user's
+ templates, they need to filter the expression through the 'n' filter::
+
+ ${ myhtml | n }.
+
+ See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/193.
+
- Deprecated all assignments to ``request.response_*`` attributes (for
example ``request.response_content_type = 'foo'`` is now deprecated).
Assignments and mutations of assignable request attributes that were