[Using Sakai] Anti-Samy filering: on or off

Neal Caidin neal.caidin at apereo.org
Mon Feb 9 09:08:23 PST 2015


Don't forget that there is a High setting and a Low setting and both of
these are configurable. So hopefully you would be able to start with one of
those (high is recommended) and then get it to work optimally for your
institution, taking into account security risks for being less restrictive.

-- Neal


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
wrote:

> The only justification for turning HTML filtering off would be that you
> have complete trust in all of your users and that only authorized users are
> able to post content to your Sakai instance.  Maybe your instance is used
> by a small group of professional collaborators and worrying about a user
> modifying grade information via XSS attacks doesn't apply.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody here not have Anti-Samy filtering turned on? If so how are
>> you justifying this (you can reply off-list if you like).
>>
>> adam
>>
>> --
>>
>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
>>
>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>
>>
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