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, <mbrooks@cpan.org> - http://mbrooks.info

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html

cpanm Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters