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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181151 is a reply to message #181149]

Fri, 19 April 2013 16:30

Daniel Pitts
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On 4/19/13 9:16 AM, Jim Higgins wrote:
>
> I have a problem with people entering a slashed zero vs a standard
> ASCII zero into HTML forms intended to store data in a MySQL database.
>
> Is there a simple way in PHP to restrict input to the ASCII Character
> set, specifically hex 0x20 - 0x7E ? Or a simple way to detect
> characters outside this range before committing them to the database?
>
> My mind says it should be easy to detect and that I should be able to
> do it myself, but for some reason I'm drawing a huge blank.
>
> Thank you.
>

Are they literally putting "\0", or do you mean it is sending the byte 0
(where "0" is the byte 48)?

If they are putting "\0", then this indicates you are not escaping the
string appropriately. Don't filter it, escape it.

If it is the byte 0, then that is a very unusual thing for them to submit.

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		Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:16
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Lew Pitcher on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Daniel Pitts on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:30
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:11
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:48
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:46
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:00
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:23
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 17:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:33
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:12
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:52
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:53
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:36
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:58
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 01:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:19
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 08:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:15
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:41
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:55
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 13:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:03
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:51
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:57
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:45
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Tim Streater on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:09
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:44
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 20 April 2013 14:07
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:01
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:17
		Address munging (was: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:23
		OT: Address munging (was: Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 20 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 12:10

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