I've inherited an MVC asp.net app using framework 4.0.
I'm getting the dreaded "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client" error and all my research leads me to believe that this should fix it:
<system.web>
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />
<pages validateRequest="false" />
</system.web>
However, I've added that to my web.config and still get the error. I'm at the end of my rope here, what am I missing?
The simplest way is to remove the characters you want from the validation system.
Here is the
requestPathInvalidCharacters
attribute from thehttpRuntime
element with its default value.Remove the characters you want to authorize and the request will work.
Take another approach. In the
httpRuntime
, point to your custom validation class. This way have the complete control over incoming requests as the validator is fired upon each single request, at the beginning of the processing pipeline.In particular, if you implement your validator to return
true
, you will unconditionally accept all incoming requests.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.util.requestvalidator.aspx
In addition to what you did you also have to decorate your methods with the
ValidateInput
attribute.There is an alternative though, you can implement your own request validator and bind that in your web.config if you want to handle validation for your entire site. Take a look at this blog post on how to fully implement it.
Basically, create a class that inherits from
RequestValidator
and then hook it up on the web.config.Hopefully this helps!