Hi Mark Thanks for the reply. So you are using the illegal characters in your strings, and want to preserve them? I really don't need to, most of my data is just users being cute. So far I've found that these characters are off limits: " ' <

& Anyone found any others? -e- On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Gibson wrote:

I've been using xmlrpclib.Binary to encode the strings before I send them.

Mark Ed Colmar wrote:

...

I've got a xml-rpc error that has creeped in, and I'm curious what the standard procedure is for making sure this does not happen. All of these xml-rpc fields are user input areas, and are pretty much not protected. Users can enter any charaters they want... So far it has been working well, but now I've got this:

Syntax error at line 4324: illegal character in content

To be expected I guess...

So, my question is, what are people using for stripping out these characters before sending the data over xml-rpc. Or, put another way, what characters are permitted? Should I just strip out everything that is not alphanumeric?

Thanks!

-e-

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