[thelist] Form Text Area Paste from Outlook Problem
Nick Wilson
nick at explodingnet.com
Wed Feb 27 01:11:00 CST 2002
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* and then ADOLPH TRUDEAU declared....
> Hi,
> I have people pasting text from outlook into a web form. The text is not
> being picked up by the responding script. This is giving me a headache with
> an asp script but I have noticed it once before with cold fusion. It seems
> as if this is happening because outlook is pasting some offending special
> character in the text box. Has anyone out there encountered this/found a
> fix? I'm just getting started researching a fix, so any input would be
> helpful.
In PHP I'd be looking at addslashes() which will escape any special
chars so the data is suitable for db insertion. I'm sure ASP has an
equivalent.
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