A.D.D. In IT

In ASP.NET if the Page's ValidateRequest property is set to true, posted data is checked to see if it contains potentially malicious input data, such as HTML and JavaScript.

While this is useful and creates a more secure default environment to prevent cross-site scripting, it can be very user unfriendly if users attempt to post hyperlinks or linked images to your application. Simply put, you could disable this property and perform input validation on the server side to attempt to remove malicious data, but instead I'll show you how to gracefully handle suspected malicious code.

If you've never heard of BOSH (Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP), you would not be the only one. I only heard of it yesterday while exploring the steps involved in an MVC (model-view control) implementation for our OnlineTesting system.

In an application I was receiving two errors related to uploads: "Max request length exceeded" and "Timeout". Here is the simple fix to dealing with both.

This is not a new item, but it came up recently so I decided to post about it. If you use a public AJAX library such as jQuery or script.aculo.us you may find this helpful/interesting/both.

One of the neat things about the ASP.NET MVC framework is the ability to reuse bits of user interface code. A problem can present itself when you create a reusable view that posts data. Hard coding a redirect can lead to a difficult and frustrating user experience. I'm going to show you a simple way to redirect back to the originating page.

A cool little application for Windows users who deal with many programs (read: more than one) would have to be something called Launchy.

So it would seem that IE has an issue with tracking the referring page when Javascript redirection is used. Fortunately there is a relatively simple solution to this conundrum.

So it seems Drupal is just as convoluted as any other CMS system. Between the endless function-following and various other non-standard (read: not a way I would do it, but probably more standard than my way) ways to configure variables, I have finally found a way to get that damned Home link on the primary links without setting a database entry.