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Re: RE: Canonicalization


From: jovan.burd () yahoo com
Date: 13 Apr 2006 05:29:19 -0000

Yes. All kinds of encoding must be decoded to simplest format.

Absence of Canonicalization might lead to a security flaw like SQL injection.

Lots of SQL injection takes place because the programmer of a web application has forgotten to convert a single quote 
(') to two single-quotes ('').

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