Countermeasures against XSS with UTF-7 are: Specify charset clearly (HTTP header is recommended) Don't place the text attacker can control before <meta> Specify recognizable charset name by browser. For more information about UTF-7 trick, see "Cross-site scripthing with UTF-7". These XSS patterns are tested on IE6 and IE7. Yosuke HASEGAWA <hasegawa@openmya.hacker.jp> Last modified: 2008-01