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    <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I find the whole
      validation issue difficult and not well documented
      (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3754">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3754</a>, last updated four
      hours ago). How do I put all validation off? I really don need
      that much security.<br>
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      Jan<br>
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    On 04/28/11 18:19, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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            73, 125);">I see the problem, just not sure how to fix it.
            Steve W. provided some possibilities but that’s probably not
            the only approach. It would be helpful if some interested
            person(s) got together and drafted an RFC. I think the devs
            would be in a position to help define implementation details
            if the problem is well defined along with a proposed
            solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            73, 125);">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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                <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On
                  Behalf Of </b>Rahkonen Jukka<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:21 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Validation beyond
                [A-z]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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              color: blue;">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              color: blue;">Validation is nowadays needed in quite a
              many places in a mapfile.  However, we who live outside
              the English speaking world tend to have more characters in
              the alphabet than A to Z.  This makes the mapfile
              validation idea only half effective because for making
              things to work at all with the native data we must accept
              almost everything that is non-numeric with wildcards. Are
              there others who think that this is a problem?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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              color: blue;">Stephen Woodbidge commented slightly this
              topic in another thead a month ago (Mar 29, 2011)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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              color: blue;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              color: blue;">-Jukka Rahkonen-</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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