ValidateRequest customization

[Ben R.]

Is there any way to selectively have ValidateRequest on based on the logged
in user?

Also, can we control what tags will be allowed? For example, I don't have a
problem with my users toggling bold, but don't want them using scripting. Is
there a way to customize the tags that are allowed?

If not, is there any suggested alternate method for performing this sort of
partial validation?

-Ben

[PeterKellner]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 07:30:03 -0700, Ben R. <be**@newsgroup .nospam>
wrote:

Is there any way to selectively have ValidateRequest on based on the logged
in user?

Also, can we control what tags will be allowed? For example, I don't have a
problem with my users toggling bold, but don't want them using scripting. Is
there a way to customize the tags that are allowed?

If not, is there any suggested alternate method for performing this sort of
partial validation?

-Ben

For your first quesiton, you could have a customvalidator , something
like this:

protected void CustomValidator 1_ServerValidat e(object source,
ServerValidateE ventArgs args)
{
MembershipUser mu = Membership.GetU ser();
if (!Roles.IsUserI nRole("RoleOfIn terest"))
{
args.IsValid = false;
}
else
{
args.IsValid = true;
}

}
Peter Kellner
http://peterkellner.net

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Ben,

As for the "RequestValidat ion" setting, it is controlled by @Page
directive(valid ateRequest attribute). Also, we can programmtically enable
RequestValidati on through the "HttpRequest.Va lidateInput" method. e.g.

======in global.asax==== =====
void Application_Beg inRequest(objec t sender, EventArgs e)
{
HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Va lidateInput();
}
=============== ==========

However, the above approaches only utilize the built-in validation code
logic, and the ASP.NET framework doesn't allow user to customize the
validation logic. If you do want to perform custom validation on the
ASP.NET request's data collection, you can consider the following options:

1. Turn all request validation on the whole page request, and perform
individual validation on the input fields in the web page. For example, we
can use validation control to validate TextBox controls.

#How To: Use Regular Expressions to Constrain Input in ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...1.asp?frame=tr
ue
2. We can do the request validation ourselves completely. The following
msdn article has demonstrated how to implement own request validation in
ASP.NET 1.0(which doesn't support validateRequest naturally). You can
reference to its code logic.

#Adding Cross-Site Scripting Protection to ASP.NET 1.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...rotection.asp?
frame=true

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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