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 Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
Subject: I realize that I'm on XML.com, but....
Date: 2005-04-26 15:58:43
From: krufty
Response to: I realize that I'm on XML.com, but....

incidentally, a programmer mistake by parsing literals on a data feed could result in something like


If your datafeed contained:


alert("oops, thought i took this debug line out of here");


you'd execute it. The datafeed cannot accidentally cause the calling page to execute javascript code unless you eval the data coming back.


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