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DarkDrift
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USA
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Posted - 12 January 2005 :  11:53:43  Show Profile  Visit DarkDrift's Homepage  Send DarkDrift an AOL message
What is stopping the users from entering malicious ASP code in the reply boxes?
like if they were to write
%><%Response.Write("AHHHHH")%><%
Why doesn't that "Actually" work?

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Shaggy
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Posted - 12 January 2005 :  12:13:56  Show Profile
Because, even if there were no checks to replace < and > with &lt; and &gt;, that code would not be executed on the server but written straight to screen as HTML.


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HuwR
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Posted - 12 January 2005 :  12:29:30  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
the input is checked to ensure no malicious code can be entered
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