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.NET validateRequest causing you grief
Last Modified: 3/9/2010 by mr.dossett

The Problem
Being the security experts that they are, Microsoft is attempting to save you from yourself by providing some built in request validation in .NET. What this means is that if you have a form that has user input fields and someone types in something evil like HTML 3.0 code into it, you'll get an exciting error message telling you this isn't allowed. The idea here is of course to try and keep people from doing things like cross site scripting (XSS) on your poorly designed web site.

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