A potentially dangerous Request.Form

Question

Anyone know why I am getting the following error? I have debugging enabled.

Server Error in \'/\' Application.
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Answer 1

It's because you have HTML tags in your POST request. To allow it you need to Set ValidateRequest= false in your @Page directives. But remember this can expose your site for Cross Site Scripting Attacks.

Answer 2

Make sure you're changing in the actual Web.config. I was changing it in Web.debug.config and Web.release.config files and it wouldn't work.