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Add a security document, detailing issues that white-listing won't resolve.

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== Possible Security Issues ==
Like anything that claims to afford security, HTML_Purifier can be circumvented
through negligence of people. This class will do its job: no more, no less,
and it's up to you to provide it the proper information and proper context
to be effective. Things to remember:
1. UTF-8. Currently, the parser runs under the assumption that it is dealing
with UTF-8. Not ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252, UTF-8. And definitely not "no
character encoding explicitly stated" or UTF-7. If you're not using UTF-8 as
your character encoding, you should switch. Now. (in future versions, however,
I may make the character encoding configurable, but there's only so much I
can do). Make sure any input is properly converted to UTF-8, or the parser
will mangle it badly (though it won't be a security risk if you're outputting
it as UTF-8).
2. XHTML 1.0. This is what the parser is outputting. For the most part, it's
compatible with HTML 4.01, but XHTML enforces some very nice things that all
web developers should use. Regardless, NO DOCTYPE is a NO. Quirks mode has
waaaay too many quirks for a little parser to handle.
3. [PROJECTED] IDs. They need to be unique, but without some knowledge of the
rest of the document, it's difficult to know what's unique. I project default
behavior being a customizable prefix to all ID declarations in the document,
so make sure you don't use that prefix. Might cause problems for multiple
instances of HTML escaped output too (especially when it comes to caching).
Best to just zap them completely, perhaps. This will be configurable, and you'll
have to pick the correct one.
4. [PROJECTED] Links. We're not going to try for spam protection (although
some hooks for such a module might be nice) but we may offer the ability to
only accept relative URLs. Pick the one that's right for you.
5. [PROJECTED] CSS. What a knotty issue. Probably will have to be configurable.