point is, you should never rely on client-side code to validate forms.

I wholehearetdly agree, our use of javascript in this case is to just to prevent a post if the length is out of bounds with a textarea. when the form gets posted, the real validations take place (a fun place where MS word formatting characters are sanitized and fed to oracle) via perl. We also handle forcing/restricting alpha/numerics, etc I inherited the system (on contract), but given the user requirements, I can't see how it could have been done any other way. (the requirements were specifically for popup warnings, which while annoying save posts to the busy server)

btw, this being an internal business app, we have only have to code to one browser, netscape 4.x and require javascript. a very controlled environment. there are plenty of other reasons on top of what we're discussing that would disqualify it for general net use. :-)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Regex help by wardk
in thread Regex help by wstarrs

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