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safe-methods: pass "pointed" methods?

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#1,738 opened on Nov 9, 2022

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Description

Hi,

I'm using Sanitize.fragment(str) to sanitize, but --safe-methods=Sanitize.fragment does not work, I have to decay this into --safe-methods=fragment. But I feel less secure this way. It would be nice to have richer means to specify the safe methods.

Cheers!

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Investigate how Brakeman currently handles safe methods and explore extending the configuration to support qualified method names like 'Sanitize.fragment'.
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