JQuery UI button submitting entire content problem in IE 6.0

Question

Hi, I have the same problem as posted here

I have a <button> element that triggers "A potentially dangerous request.form value..." error in asp.net MVC. For instance:

<button type="submit" name="logon" value="ok">Confirm</button>
<button type="submit" name="cancel" value="ok">Cancel</button>

And this javascript (with jquery UI 1.8.5)

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("button").button();
    });        
</script>

The issue is that I can't remove the name property (as the given solution in the link I posted) because I capture which button is pressed in the controller side this way:

public ActionResult Logon(FormCollection form, string logon, string cancel)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(logon))
    {
        DoLogon(); 
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cancel))
    {
        Cancel(); 
    }  
    //etc
} 

Is there any workaround for this? Thanks. Note that I don't have this problem in IE8 or firefox.

Answer 1

Have you seen this?

Cause
The .NET framework is throwing up an error because it detected something in the entered text which looks like an HTML statement. The text doesn't need to contain valid HTML, just anything with opening and closing angled brackets ("<...>").

The solution proposed there is to disable the request validation on the server-side:

<pages validateRequest="false" />

Be sure to read through the warnings and explanations as well.