NAME Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters - Plugin providing data filtering methods SYNOPSIS my $obj = $c->plugin('Filters')->method( ... ); # Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters->method() or $c->plugin('Filters')->method( ... ); DESCRIPTION Common methods for filtering HTTP request parameters. PREREQUISITES This package is part of a larger distribution and was NOT intended to be used directly. In order for this plugin to work properly, the following packages must be installed: Apache2::WebApp HTML::StripScripts::Parser Params::Validate INSTALLATION From source: $ tar xfz Apache2-WebApp-Plugin-Filters-0.X.X.tar.gz $ perl MakeFile.PL PREFIX=~/path/to/custom/dir LIB=~/path/to/custom/lib $ make $ make test $ make install Perl one liner using CPAN.pm: $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters' Use of CPAN.pm in interactive mode: $ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters cpan> quit Just like the manual installation of Perl modules, the user may need root access during this process to insure write permission is allowed within the installation directory. OBJECT METHODS encode_url Encode URL to ASCII. my $ascii = $c->plugin('Filters')->encode_url($url); decode_url Decode ASCII to URL. my $url = $c->plugin('Filters')->decode_url($url); strip_domain_alias Remove the subdomain (alias) from a domain name. my $result = $c->plugin('Filters')->strip_domain_alias($domain); strip_html Remove all HTML tags and attributes. my $result = $c->plugin('Filters')->strip_html($markup); untaint_html Remove restricted HTML tags and attributes. my $result = $c->plugin('Filters')->untaint_html($markup); Supported tags: a blockquote br dd dl div em font form img input hr h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 label legend li ol option p pre ul script select small span strong style table tbody tfoot thead tr td SEE ALSO Apache2::WebApp, Apache2::WebApp::Plugin, HTML::StripScripts::Parser AUTHOR Marc S. Brooks, - COPYRIGHT This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See