I am trying to turn off Request Validation for all action methods in a controller by doing this: [ValidateInput(false)] public class MyController : Controller { ... The reference I am using says this is possible and tells me to do it this way, but for some reason it's not working. If I submit any html (even a simple <b> tag) thro...
Has request validation changed for ASP.NET MVC 2, more precisely, not validating? I did the following: Web.configs (in App directory and Views directory) <pages validateRequest="false" Controller/Action Attribute [ValidateInput(false)] In @Page View Directive ValidateRequest="false" The page still gets validated an excepti...
Investigating the security of a system I'm building with ASP.NET MVC 2 led me to discover the request validation feature of ASP.NET - a very neat feature, indeed. But obviously I don't just want to present the users with the Yellow Screen of Death when they enter data with HTML in, so I'm out to find a better solution. My idea is to fin...
So, this whitepaper describes one of the breaking changes in .Net 4 to be the error message "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client in", and the fix to enter into the Web.config file I have 2 problems with this. Does this mean that any website where I want a wysiswyg editor like tinymce, or ckeditor, t...
I have a Facebook-style modern button control whose client side markup looks like: <button id="ctl00_uxBtn" value="ctl00$uxBtn" name="ctl00$uxBtn type="submit"> <div style="background-image: url("Icons/page_edit.png"); background-position: left center; background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 16px; padding: 3px 0pt 3px 22px;">Save D...