Special Chars and Quotations

[jl8789]

I want to be able to handle special characters and the ' " marks in my password application. I can insert the special characters using Oracle through the back end, so I should be able to do this thru the GUI using ColdFusion.

1) How will I handle it when they may have &,#,'or" entered in their password string? Is there some encoding thing I can use like the URLEncodedFormat?

Thank You!!

 

[GUJUm0deL]

jl8789, chances are its breaking when you try to check against the dB in your SELECT statements (or in the INSERT INTO statements). You can use regEX to try to work around it. A quick google search yielded:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-b19.htm

(scroll down to the comments some users have solutions about this)

http://www.sanjeevshukla.com/blog/index.php?p=22

I don't think you should allow users to enter special chars anyway. If you must make sure the passwords are not easilty guessable, make sure the passwords have letters and numbers in them.


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