program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?

Sat Apr 2 21:34:45 CST 2005

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Graham Toal wrote:

> PS Unfortunately there's a small bug caused by him mishandling
> protection against data injection attacks: you can't enter Algol60
> code or anything else with single quotes in it :-( ...
> e.g. http://www.facade.com/legacy/punchcard/?val='BEGIN'

That's inadvertent.  The script parser (PHP perhaps?) is automatically
escaping the single quote with a backslash, which is the default action.
You normally have to run web inputs through filtering functions to get rid
of any escape characters the parser added.

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