Re: Extended ASCII characters used for injection

Jeff Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What platform are you using? It really makes a difference in how Unicode is handled.

--Jeff



On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:29 AM, "Chris Weber" <[email protected]> wrote:

> You'd be blocking legitimate usage of many different character encodings
> including UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 if you blocked 0x77 - 0xff.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Nibbler
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:06 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Extended ASCII characters used for injection
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a web app and I want to block special characters in URL on the
> web server. Do you know if there is a risk of injection (XSS...) with
> extended ASCII char (%7f-%ff)?
> Is there any reason to block these characters?
> 
> Thanks
> Regards,
> Nib
> 
> 
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