Re: Security issues relating to submitting href links and text:

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From: Eric Lawrence [MSFT] (e_lawrence_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/04


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:57:12 -0800

Please do not cross-post to so many newsgroups.

Regular expressions are your friends-- use them wisely. You'll want to
ensure that the data entered matches the formats you expect (easy for URLs,
harder for "descriptive text"). See http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/19510
for instance.

-- 
Thanks,
Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Assistance and Worldwide Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Chipmunk" <reply@newsgroup.com> wrote in message
news:exaUD3Z#DHA.3808@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>     I am currently developing a website (ASP.NET) which allows users to
> submit a web form containing a href link in one field and descriptive text
> in another field. The records will stored to varchar columns in a SQL
Server
> 2000 database and hosted by a 3rd party ISP. The list of links will then
be
> made available to other users.
>     What general security precautions should be taken when developing a
> website of this nature? Specifically, I am concerned about the possibility
> of malicious SQL or ASP script insertion and it's impact on the web or
> database server. I am already using client and server side validation to
> restrict the description field to alpha-numeric characters, period and
> spaces.
>
>


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