Why Using A URL Containing A Colon Considered As A Potentially Dangerous Request
Jul 27, 2010
(probably a bot) sent a request with the following URL to my ASP.NET 4.0 web forms application (running on IIS 7.0):http://ipaddress-of-my-applications-domain/bla1.bla2.bla3.bla4.bla5:)This caused an System.Web.HttpException. I received a logging email from ASP.NET HealthMonitoring I had configured, telling me:A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:).
System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig()
System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)
Why is a colon in the URL "potentially dangerous"? What dangerous things can be done with such a URL? Do I have any security hole here I am not aware of?
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System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig() +8884233
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