Active Server Pages/Protecting against user-input (XSS attacks)
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To protect against user input, or the now vulnerable XSS attacks, you'll need to escape both URLs and user-inputted text for HTML. In ASP this is done with two functions Server.HTMLEncode, and Server.URLEncode.
Server.HTMLEncode [edit]
Don't ever output non-escaped user data:
Response.write user_data
Instead do the following:
Response.write Server.HTMLEncode( user_data )
This method should also be used for all data that comes from sql. Better safe than sorry.
Server.URLEncode [edit]
URL-Encoding is more for the purpose of HTML validation. To be valid HTML all '&' (&) and '=' must be encoded. The function Server.URLEncode takes care of that task for you. All query-strings should be url-encoded.
<a href="http://foobar.com?<%= Server.URLEncode( "foo=bar" + "&baz=quz" ) %>">