[mapserver-users] RE: Validation beyond [A-z]

[Jan Hartmann]

I find the whole validation issue difficult and not well documented 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3754, last updated four hours 
ago). How do I put all validation off? I really don need that much security.

Jan

On 04/28/11 18:19, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Steve
>
> *From:*mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Rahkonen Jukka
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:21 AM
> *To:* mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [mapserver-users] Validation beyond [A-z]
>
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Stephen Woodbidge commented slightly this topic in another thead a 
> month ago (Mar 29, 2011)
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
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