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Re: Re: Canonicalization


From: susam_pal () yahoo co in
Date: 13 Apr 2006 07:17:57 -0000

I am writing some examples. Please tell me if these are the examples of Canonicalization.

1. When an web application gets parameters from a GET request or POST request, and if that parameter is going to be 
used as a part of an SQL query, then the programmer must take care to convert the single-quote (') to two 
single-quotes('') for Oracle Database in order to prevent SQL injection. Is this canonicalization?

2. Take a guestbook of a site. The feedback given is going to appear back in the web-page. Here we need to take care 
that things like "<font>" should be converted to "&gt;font&lt;" before it appears on the page. Is this a case of 
canonicalization?

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