Special chars in http response

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Sorry for my silly question.
When I print out something as HTTP response to the client, the content
which has special chars included shch as < and > has been resolved as
HTML tags. How to escape these special chars automatically?

Thanks

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Higher-level frameworks can offer more, but there is a basic html_escape method in Ruby's CGI module:

CGI.escapeHTML('Usage: foo "bar" <baz>')
# => "Usage: foo &quot;bar&quot; &lt;baz&gt;"

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0/CGI/Util.html#method-i-escapeHTML

Rails ActiveSupport:

https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ERB/Util.html#method-i-html_escape

Hanami:

https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/hanami-utils/Hanami%2FUtils%2FEscape.html

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On April 21, 2022 2:17:09 PM UTC, alice@coakmail.com wrote:

When I print out something as HTTP response to the client, the content
which has special chars included shch as < and > has been resolved as
HTML tags. How to escape these special chars automatically?