[Zope] xml-rpc illegal characters

[Mark Gibson]

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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