Re: Extended ASCII characters used for injection

john s <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
<snip>
> You'd be blocking legitimate usage of many different character encodings
> including UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 if you blocked 0x77 - 0xff.
</snip>

<snip>
> What platform are you using? It really makes a difference in how Unicode
> is handled.
</snip>


Doesn't this issue really boil down to the requirements of a given
application?

Just because some applications require extended character sets, does
that mean every web server implementation needs to support them all?



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