Re: Making sure a post request came from your site
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Fri, 05 Apr 2002 18:41:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Making sure a post request came from your site | ||
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On Saturday 06 April 2002 02:26, Chris Boget wrote:
> > You can never assume that submitted data is benign or untampered.
>
> Ok, then how do you go about checking to make sure that submitted
> data is, in fact, benign and acceptable for your use?
For starters:
If it's supposed to be a number make sure that it is a number.
If it's supposed to be a name make sure it only contains letters a-z & A-Z &
spaces.
etc, etc.
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