Re: [Edbrowse-dev] tidy script bug workaround

[Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:05:45PM -0400, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> > Doesn't this miss the also destructive </script problem?
> 
> Yes it does, but "</script>" does not seem to appear in the wild.
> In other words, web developers and generators are careful not to crank out
> the string "...</script>..." because </script> anywhere ends the script.
> My parser has made this assumption for ten years, and it's pretty reliable.
> 
> They're more than happy to write
> var a = "<script>";
> but not
> var a = "</script>";
> the latter often written as
> var a = "</scr" + "ipt>";
> This too generates a tidy warning, because </s shouldn't appear,
> or </ any letter for that matter,
> but it does not cause trouble and does not derail the script.
> So my early research suggests we're ok here.

Ok that makes sense. In which case I'm unclear as to why tidy5 wouldn't handle
<script inside a script tag. Has anyone posted to their mailing list yet about this?

Cheers,
Adam.

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