validation

Why is client-side validation a security risk as opposed to server-side validation?

I don't quite understand why client side validation is a potential security risk or more of a security risk than server side validation? Can someone give me some scenarios? ...

.NET MVC and SalesForce drop down list issue

I built a form in sales force and added it to my site. The whole goal of this is that the form on my site submits to sales force. I want to add server-side validation to my form like I have on other forms on my site. Sales force uses a weird name for drop down lists that often starts with a number. In my case, the drop down list inp...

given a set of conditions, algorithmically determine only one can be True

Given a set of two or more logical conditions, is it possible to algorithmically determine that exactly ONE of them will evaluate to TRUE? For example: # this should pass, since for every X, only one condition is taken cond 1: (X >= 1.0) cond 2: (X < 1.0) # this should fail cond 1: (X < 1.0) cond 2: (X > 2.0) # this should also fail,...

How to build a multiple specific validation rule

Hi, I have an application that must be prepared to work in various companies. But I fear that every company needs specific validation rule. What is the better way to perform validation in my presentation layer without having to recompile my application for each client? ...

Can I fire asp.net validation when using calender picker?

Hi, I am using a calender control with java script,date will be assigned to a text box when user picks the date from calender control. For the text box i am using date regularexpression validation. I am entering wrong data in the textbox field,the validation was fired and displays a error message.then when i am picking the date from ca...

How to check if a webpage exists. jQuery and/or PHP

I want to be able to validate a form to check if a website/webpage exists. If it returns a 404 error then that definitely shouldn't validate. If there is a redirect...I'm open to suggestions, sometimes redirects go to an error page or homepage, sometimes they go to the page you were looking for, so I don't know. Perhaps for a redirect th...

How to validate in domain layer

I often see people validating domain objects by creating rule objects which take in a delegate to perform the validation. Such as this example": http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/DelegateBusinessObjects.aspx What I don't understand is how is this advantageous to say just making a method? For example, in that particular article there is...

Validate against javax bind annotations rather than schema

Been using latest JAXB Sun implementation but can rely on the XJC to generate correct annotations. Have several examples whereby the XJC doesn't attached XMLElement or XMLAttribute annotations for no logical reason. Plus have problems with the logic behind the plugins framework. Anyways I want to ditch the idea of writing schemas just...

POCOs, DTOs and IDataErrorInfo

Hi Everyone, I awake this morning to a problem! In all of my components, I have a set of Business Rules which are used to validate DTOs before any changes are committed to the repository. I've been trying to figure out the best way to get validation errors back to the UI and I came across the IDataErrorInfo interface. Fantastic! How...

Localizing Error Messages In ASP.NET MVC 2 (Default Validation Attributes)

Hey all ,,, i'm working on a multi language website and i want to localize the validation error messages for most of the ValidationAttribute such as [Requried] I know it can be done as Phil Haack have shown in this article. [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = "Required")] but i want t...

DataGridView HasErrors?

I wish to prevent the user from saving changes made to a DataGridView if it has any validation errors (set using the ErrorText property of a cell using the CellValidating event). I'm looking for (but cannot see) a method such as myDataGridView.HasErrors()? ...

InputVerifier and multiple fields

Hello, I am working on a form that provides "real-time" validation to the user and I have one problem. The goal is to put a label near the field (in this case a JSpinner), to show the user if the data is accepted or denied, in the same way that javascript-based validators do. The problem is that for archieving this, I need to set the ...

User input validation for JOptionPane.showInputDialog

I'm just learning JAVA and having a bit of trouble with this particular part of my code. I searched several sites and have tried many different methods but can't seem to figure out how to implement one that works for the different possibilities. int playerChoice = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter num...

JQuery: Validating Data Rules

Site: http://tinyurl.com/2cjlsxk This code is not optimized nor is it the best method. If you have any ideas to improve anything, let me know. Please visit the site to get an idea of the data. I have used Dan G. Switzer, II's calculation plugin [adding .sum() .max() .min() .avg()] The validation requirement i'd like to have is to make...

validate URL in form http://www.test.com

Hi, I want to validate URL (using java script) to accept only format - http://www.test.com. I'm trying following code, but it accepts test.com and http://www.test.com.com also. var URLReg = new RegExp(); URLReg.compile("^[A-Za-z]+://[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\\.[A-Za-z0-9-_%&\?\/.=]+$"); if (!URLReg.test(form["URL"].value)) { alert("You must su...

Replace "this field is required" message in django admin

Hi, is there a way to replace the default error message in django admin. I'm using custom widget so I have the form and I was wondering is there something like: field_1 = forms.Charfield(widget=X, error_messge='y') I already tried to add claen_field_1 method but it looks that it is not called when the field is empty. Any ideas will...

Asp.Net Validation - Clientside And/Or Serverside?

The validator controls that can be used for asp.net input validation... requiredfieldvalidator regularexpressionvalidator etc Do they perfrom validation on the client side AND server side or do I need to have seperate validation in my codebehind to validate on postback (ie to prevent POST injection)? ...

ASP.NET MVC: Image upload validation

I'm trying to subclass ValidationAttribute in ASP.NET MVC 2 to make something along the lines of an ImageValidator class which would make sure that an uploaded image (from <input type="file">) has the correct mimetype, doesn't exceed the maximum allowed file size, etc. So where do I start? I get the feeling like images are an exception ...

jQuery validation plugin validating html control only

Hi guys, I'm developing a form with client side validation using jQuery validation plugin. This almost works perfect but i'm getting a problem: The form is composed by 5 inputs. One input requires the content of other input(that must be valid) to proceed the validation, i show one example: $('#submitionData').validate( { ...

Code checking service? (Internet languages - PHP/ASP/Javascript)

How would one go about getting his or her code 'validated' to ensure it is comfortably secure enough to make public? In other words if I have written a PHP app and I have made efforts to sanitize all inputs - is there a commonly used/accepted way or service where one or more experts can check that it really is secure enough to go public...