A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

Question

Every time a user posts something containing < or > in a page in my web application, I get this exception thrown.

I don\'t want to go

Answer 1

It seems no one has mentioned the below yet, but it fixes the issue for me. And before anyone says yeah it's Visual Basic... yuck.

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Example.aspx.vb" Inherits="Example.Example" **ValidateRequest="false"** %>

I don't know if there are any downsides, but for me this worked amazing.