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Source: lxer.com - Posted by Bill Keys   
Network Security In this installment, I will cite an example of automated email code designed for another purpose. Nonetheless, I see it is a critical step to confirm the validity of the form's input. Moreover, unless and until I have received the expected human confirmation, that input is left in limbo [1.]. This is another means to prevent spurious, but uncaught data inputs. Thus, this limited human energy expenditure is a high return investment. This article looks at the important security practice of web application input validation. Every time you take input from your web application check needs to be executed before your software does anything to that data. Do you have any tips for checking your user's input data for malicious data?

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