Re: htmlspecial-chars is NOT binary save

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > my mistake, my new oci blob stuff doesn't append a null to the clob > > (character lob), one guy working with it noticed strange things when > > htmlspecialcharing these blobs..... > > > > BTW: should all strings (var->value.str.val) still be zero terminated???? > > or is the length in .len the only "of it's kind" (if the later is true > > htmlspecialchars needs the fix) > > Yes, they should be null-terminated. There are plenty of functions in > external libraries that expect strings to be null-terminated and it isn't > possible for us to fix all of these libs to be binary-safe. sorry, too much work lately - my view of the world was VERY limited - of course - you are right!!! cheers, tc > > -Rasmus > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net