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ValidateRequest problem

I got the following error in one of my pages:

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

This is apparently there to prevent HTML tags from being put into textboxes
and submitted to the server which may have some harmful scripts.

I found that to turn it off I can do the following:

<pages validateRequest ="false" />

This seems reasonable because I don't know what this is checking and I can't
have my pages getting errors with perfectly legal information the client may
need to input.

I found I was getting the problem with the following:

&#124

Why is that?

Thanks,

Tom

Jun 8 '06 #1
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