[thelist] form field safety

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Sun Oct 26 20:38:02 CDT 2008


Just have the server email it to you as plain text. And make sure there isn't any way that the submitted could "inject" a header into the SMTP message - everything they submit must go into the SMTP body. When it gets to your mail client, it's just a bunch of plain text...

Cheers
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Joel D Canfield
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> Subject: [thelist] form field safety
>
> Drawing a huge blank; I can't even think of what to search for, though
> it ought to be a fairly simple Googlage.
>
> I have a form where users can submit a short story. I just want to put
> some safeguards in place to prevent ugliness. This will not be written
> to a database, just emailed to me. I'm looking for server side safety
> considerations; just doing basic form validation with js up front.
>
> I been sick. My head's not working. I, on the other hand, still need to
> work.
>
> Thanks.




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