Django. How to make html(tinymce) input safe on form.clean? - django

For example, I have "Add comment" form on my django-powered website.
This form have text field with tinymce.
I want user to be able to use only p,strong,i,ul,ol,li tags. Because, result is html-code, I can't use strip_tags on my AddCommentForm.clean_text method. Also, I need to be sure, that result doesn't contain any vulnerabilities (js, iframe, etc)
I believe, that you can advice me a good solution for this))

This can be done at the TinyMCE side via some configuration parameters. While it's not 100% secure fro someone POSTing directly, it's better than nothing.
It should just be a matter of tweaking your valid_elements config in your TinyMCE setup to only allow what you want:
...
valid_elements : "p,strong/b,i/em,ul,ol,li",
...

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django - ckeditor bug renders text/string in raw html format

am using django ckeditor. Any text/content entered into its editor renders raw html output on the webpage.
for ex: this is rendered output of ckeditor field (RichTextField) on a webpage;
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">this is a test file ’s forces durin</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">galla’s good test is one that fails Thereafter, never to fail in real environment. </span></p>
I have been looking for a solution for a long time now but unable to find one :( There are some questions which are similar but none of those have been able to help. It will be helpful if any changes suggested are provided with the exact location where it needs to be changed. Needless to say I am a newbie.
Thanks
You need to mark the relevant variable that contains the html snippet in your template as safe
Obviously you should be sure, that the text comes from trusted users and is safe, because with the safe filter you are disabling a security feature (autoescaping) that Django applies per default.
If your ckeditor is part of a comment form and your mark the entered text as safe, anybody with access to the form could inject Javascipt and other (potentially nasty) stuff in your page.
The whole story is explained pretty well in the official docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#automatic-html-escaping

Is there any good reason to have Sitecore Media url's including tilde?

I could see blog post from 2011 recommending using "-" instead of "~".
What is the best practice to write media URL in Sitecore 6.5 on .NET 4.0/IIS7.5? Should I keep default /~/media/ or follow blog post advice using /-/media/ or while I am there, why not just use /media/?
I suspect the use of ~ is for legacy reasons. The current recommendation is to use -/media as you point out, but you could use whatever you wanted and it would work. The issue you have just using /media/ is if there is any other item with that as part of the name then it will trigger the media handler, rather than serving up your content for example.
For example, as request for /blah/blah/blah/-/media/images/logo.png will serve up the image correctly, /about/media/news/2013/12/20/sitecore.aspx should in fact serve up a page but will trigger the media handler and return a 404 just using /media/. So if you are going to use something else then make sure it is unique, you may need to enforce it since content editors can be a bit funny about remembering things like this.
Since you are currently using Sitecore 6.5 then I can assume you have existing content. Make sure you leave the existing ~/media trigger to allow your Rich Text fields to continue to work
If you update the Media.MediaLinkPrefix setting on a system that
already has some content in a database, Sitecore may not update the
values in all Rich Text Editor fields that contain values in the old
formats, including inline images and links to media items.
Sitecore Idiosyncrasies: Media URLs
I would probably go ahead and set Media.RequestExtension to an empty string so that image urls are served up with the correct media extension too.
I know this problem appear just when are you using .Net Framework 2.0
Please see next link .
If you run your website under .Net Framework 4.0 and IIS 7.5 you don't have this vulnerability.
Also this document explain a little bit about using of tilde.
Also you can check John West blog about /~/media
So the conclusion is use -/media for media files.
For projects using Sitecore 7.2, you may want to stick to using a tilde or apply the hot-fix mentioned in the following KB article.
https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/998758

How to ensure users only embed SoundCloud iFrame?

I am building a social networking website for musicians and I would like them to be able to enter the embed code provided by SoundCloud, so that they may have a sound clip on their posts.
However, I am unsure how I would sanitise the input, to ensure that it's only a SoundCloud iframe embed code that they enter. I want to avoid them pasting in embed code for say, YouTube or anything else for that matter.
An example embed code from SoundCloud looks like:
<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F85146642"></iframe>
I am using the HTML parser, jSoup to sanitise input.
The key fragment to this is the src content:
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F85146642
One possibility I thought of, was to extract the src parameters value and then rebuild the iframe myself, this way, only storing the URL and ensuring that any HTML output to the browser is that which I have created myself. Doing this may also allow me to run checks on the domain name etc.
I'm wondering what the best approach would be for this?
Appreciate any input you may have.
Thanks,
Michael.
PS - I am using Railo (ColdFusion server) and the Java jSoup library, but I guess the same principles would apply regardless of what language one would use.

How set a website as homepage in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari with C++?

Is there a way to set a website like google.com as homepage through C++ or C ? How ?
Not sure what your motive is, but I don't think of this as something I want any code on my system to be setting out from under me. It sounds like the kind of thing adware/malware would do to your grandparents (who wouldn't know how to fix it once it's set). Note the negative comments when the question was asked of how to do it from JavaScript:
How can I set default homepage in FF and Chrome via javascript?
It's better to point people at instructions for doing it themselves. Remind with a banner which says "Make us your homepage!", and link to something along these lines:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-change-your-homepage-in-5-browsers/
If not for the aesthetic reasons, there are technical reasons not to try and write code for it. Each browser stores this information in its own place. In IE's case, there appears to be a registry setting:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
So you'd use calls to the Windows Registry API to query it and set it. But Firefox doesn't save this in the registry, it saves it in something called prefs.js and you'll be looking for:
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", .... );
Then there's Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc. All told, better to just give people directions and put them in control of their experience!
Imports Microsft.Win32
...
Module Util
Sub SetHomePage(Dim theUrl As String)
Registry.SetValue("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main", "Start Page", theUrl)
End Sub
End Module
Yes.
Find the way each browser saves its configuration to disk and edit that (*). It may be a file, or records in a database, or some data in a central registry, or some other scheme --- the browser documentation should tell you.
To open/read/write/save/close a file, the C functions declared in the header <stdio.h> may be helpful.
(*) for Firefox it's a file named "prefs.ini" in a directory somewhere under the users home path; there may be more than 1 such file if the user has more than 1 profile.

Multiple pages html output from a .rst document in Django

I'm writing a Django app to serve some documentation written in RestructuredText.
I have many documents written in *.rst, each of them is quite long with many section, subsection and so on.
Display the whole document in a single page is not a problem using Django filters, but I'd rather have just the topic index on a first page, whit links to an URL where I can display a single section / subsection (which will need some 'previous | up | home | next' link I guess...). In a way similar to a 'multiple HTML page output' as in a docbook / XML to HTML conversion.
Can anyone point me to some direction to build a document tree of a *.rst document an parse a single section of it, or suggest a clever way to obtain a similar result?
Choice 1. Include URL links to the other parts of the document.
You write an index.rst, part1.rst, part2.rst, etc. And your index.rst has links to the other parts. This requires almost no work, except careful planning to make sure that your RST HTML links are correct.
There's no "parse". You just break your document into sections. Manually.
[This seems so obvious, I'm afraid to mention it.]
Choice 2. Use Sphinx. It manages table-of-contents and inter-document connections very nicely.
However, the Sphinx extensions to RST aren't handled directly by Django, so you'd need to save the Sphinx output and then display that in Django. We use the JSON HTML Builder (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/builders.html?highlight=json#sphinx.builders.html.JSONHTMLBuilder) output from Sphinx. Then we render these documents through a template.