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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>
      <br>
      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:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">I see the problem, just not sure how to fix it.
            Steve W. provided some possibilities but that&#8217;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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            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            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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                  &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">From:</span></b><span
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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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          <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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              color: blue;">Validation is nowadays needed in quite a
              many places in a mapfile.&nbsp; However, we who live outside
              the English speaking world tend to have more characters in
              the alphabet than&nbsp;A to&nbsp;Z.&nbsp; 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&nbsp;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">&nbsp;<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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          <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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              color: blue;">-Jukka Rahkonen-</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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