strip_tags escapes ampersands, gt and lt

[youroff]

strip_tags replaces &, > and < symbols for corresponding HTML entities.
This is unexpected, since those are not tags and they're not being stripped.
Should it be a part of a different function instead?

[HarshBalyan]

@rrrene any thoughts?
I am using HtmlSanitizeEx.html5(some_binary) and it replaces the above-mentioned symbols with HTML entities. Anyway to prevent this from happening?

[rrrene]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

I seem to remember that this is done by the library we use for parsing the HTML.

Not sure we can prevent this, but I will try to look into it 👍

edit: I confirmed that :mochiweb_html is doing this, which causes this behaviour.

[michaeljones]

Has anyone identified a version of this library where it doesn't happen? Is there one that is safe to roll back to or are there are concerns?