From: David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:56:24 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: encoding/json: document angle bracket escaping.
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2012-01-20~68
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e285ebade0aa819186cb6b6657b9de5169749ff;p=gostls13.git

encoding/json: document angle bracket escaping.

Fixes #2643.

R=rsc, d_smithson
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5543068
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diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go b/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go
index 033da2d0ad..727e8174bd 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ import (
 //
 // String values encode as JSON strings, with each invalid UTF-8 sequence
 // replaced by the encoding of the Unicode replacement character U+FFFD.
+// The angle brackets "<" and ">" are escaped to "\u003c" and "\u003e"
+// to keep some browsers from misinterpreting JSON output as HTML.
 //
 // Array and slice values encode as JSON arrays, except that
 // []byte encodes as a base64-encoded string.