[ic] "<" character in a [value]

[Rich Doughty]

On 09 Jan 2003, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> Rich Doughty [rich@opusvl.com] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > the "<" character from a textarea upload appears to be removed during the
> > > > transition from a [cgi] to a [value].
> > > > 
> > > > is there any way to disable this safety precaution?
> > > > 
> > > The Interchange Tags Reference section 4.86 (value) describes the
> > > [value] tag's "enable_html" parameter as follows:
> > >
> > where exactly is this doc? 
> > 
> > Documentation -> ictags -> value 
> > 
> > does not mention this. I checked originally when I tried to solve the
> > problem. I am using the docs on www.icdevgroup.org. Is there a more
> > up-to-date source of info?
> >
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/doc/wiki/ValueTag.html
> http://www.interchange.RTFM.info/docs/rtfm_ictags.html
> 
> > 
> > just out of interested, the characters weren't converted to &lt;, but
> > removed altogether.
> > 
> That's odd.  I'll have a look into that.  Can you demonstrate the
> problem with a small amount of code?  If so, can you post it here.
> Also, which version of Interchange are you using?

IC V 4.8.6

the "enable_html" kind of worked, but only behaved correctly when used with
[cgi]. I'll try to post a test case when i get time.

  - Rich Doughty