[thelist] What can break a form? (ASP)

[Ken Schaefer]

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: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
: bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Rob Smith
: Subject: [thelist] What can break a form? (ASP)
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: I thought I had caught all the apostrophes in my 
: form processing, and even when I did catch them all, 
: the form still went through.
: 
: My Canadian colleague loves to use special characters 
: in forms; my new best friend. Aside from the apostrophe, 
: what other special characters can break
: a form in ASP.
: 
: When replace(request.form("field"),"'","''") stops working,
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Single quotes (') do not "break" forms. The only thing that they "break" is
SQL statements that you're building on-the-fly. Why? Because ' are used as
data delimiters in SQL statements. Nothing to do with HTTP/posted data,
nothing to do with ASP. Only has relevance in your database.

Cheers
Ken

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