1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/json/indent.go b/src/encoding/json/indent.go
index 375f71605a..99951208a0 100644
--- a/src/encoding/json/indent.go
+++ b/src/encoding/json/indent.go
@@ -11,6 +11,36 @@ func availableBuffer(b *bytes.Buffer) []byte {
 	return b.Bytes()[b.Len():]
 }
 
+// HTMLEscape appends to dst the JSON-encoded src with <, >, &, U+2028 and U+2029
+// characters inside string literals changed to \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, \u2028, \u2029
+// so that the JSON will be safe to embed inside HTML <script> tags.
+// For historical reasons, web browsers don't honor standard HTML
+// escaping within <script> tags, so an alternative JSON encoding must be used.
+func HTMLEscape(dst *bytes.Buffer, src []byte) {
+	dst.Grow(len(src))
+	dst.Write(appendHTMLEscape(availableBuffer(dst), src))
+}
+
+func appendHTMLEscape(dst, src []byte) []byte {
+	// The characters can only appear in string literals,
+	// so just scan the string one byte at a time.
+	start := 0
+	for i, c := range src {
+		if c == '<' || c == '>' || c == '&' {
+			dst = append(dst, src[start:i]...)
+			dst = append(dst, '\\', 'u', '0', '0', hex[c>>4], hex[c&0xF])
+			start = i + 1
+		}
+		// Convert U+2028 and U+2029 (E2 80 A8 and E2 80 A9).
+		if c == 0xE2 && i+2 < len(src) && src[i+1] == 0x80 && src[i+2]&^1 == 0xA8 {
+			dst = append(dst, src[start:i]...)
+			dst = append(dst, '\\', 'u', '2', '0', '2', hex[src[i+2]&0xF])
+			start = i + len("\u2029")
+		}
+	}
+	return append(dst, src[start:]...)
+}
+
 // Compact appends to dst the JSON-encoded src with
 // insignificant space characters elided.
 func Compact(dst *bytes.Buffer, src []byte) error {