At 03:28 PM 6/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>You know I am far from an expert on this in any shape or form, but if I
>were doing this (and this may already be assumed in another mail
>thread) before solving that problem I would first define a system that
>allows the developer to specify a small set of valid input chars and
>reject everything else at the boundary. Its pretty damn hard to run sql
>injection, xss etc anywhere if you only allow A-Z ASCII as input.
A-Z
a-z
0-9
- (dash)
_ (underscore)
space (ASCII 32)
I *think* we're safe with those characters...
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