Re: [Nagios-devel] Variables encoded twice

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Variables encoded twice

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> > So try
> > printf(" > value='%s'>\n",html_encode(host_name,FALSE));
>
> But this works only if you enable escape_html_tags in cgi.cfg.
>
> New idea: I added a function escape_string() to clean all user supplied
> strings that get printed into html form values. Works for the above test
> cases independent of escape_html_tags. A updated patch is attached.
>

Hi Armin,

I fully agree. The html_encode function depends on the escape_html_tags setting. I've applied your patch and it works for the hosts "SDSL:Customer" and "John's server" in avail.cgi.

But it's not complete yet. Try "John's server" in the histogram.cgi and trends.cgi, and you'll get
John's server
Maybe you'll have a look at this; I will also, but I don't have the time today.

During compile, I've got four warning messages:
avail.c:944: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
history.c:207: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
trends.c:861: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
histogram.c:749: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression

They don't appear if I declare your escape_string function in the cgiutils.h files (I don't know the difference between cgiutils.h and cgiutils.h.in, so I patched both files).

Regards
Bernd

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