| Re: Browser fingerprinting? [message #182832 is a reply to message #182809] |
Wed, 18 September 2013 00:11   |
bill
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On 2013-09-16 7:03 AM, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:13:52 -0400, Norman Peelman wrote:
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>> On 09/15/2013 04:27 PM, Twayne wrote:
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>>> The biggest problem IMHO is to make a textarea safe. .....
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>> Why is a textarea any different than any other form control?
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> It's not. Any form control is fine provided that it's sensibly[1] handled
> in the server. I know that, you know that, most intelligent web
> developers know that regardless of whether their server side is java, js,
> asp, php, python, perl, a compiled cgi or something esoteric, but some
> people seem to have their own unique worldview which doesn't seem to
> involve what most of us would consider sensible handling of form controls
> in the server.
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> [1] appropriate verification, validation and handling of data to prevent
> injection of potentially harmful content.
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Didn't understand much of that long run-on sentence, but there was a
reason that at the time probably sounded logical. But I've wondered the
same thing myself; seems like it was unnecessary to have to wait for 5
to come along to implement it. Shoulda been done years ago!
Twayne`
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