Why disable would be a security issue?

On Sep 15, 3:23 pm, "Juan M. Oviedo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Disable??? That would be a security issue!
>
> Juan M. Oviedo
>
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:41:59 +0200
> Subject: [DotNetDevelopment] Re: "Failed to load view state"
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Well, it looks like that is the problem...Try not to hide it, but to disable 
> it :)
>
> 2009/9/14 Ana <[email protected]>
>
> I came back to the page I was working before to see if I find what is
>
> firing this error message. I just realized that, even though I'm not
>
> creating controls dynamically, I'm showing/hiding controls dynamically
>
> in the FormView. For instance, some fields can only be updated if the
>
> user is the administrator; when the user is not the administrator,
>
> what I'm doing is hide the control (usually a TextBox). Can this be
>
> the reason why I'm having the error message?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ana
>
> On Sep 14, 9:48 am, Ana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Apparently what was happening was that in the EditItemTemplate the
> > formView had a Label, but in the InsertItemTemplate and ItemTemplate
> > this Label was not there. I removed the Label from the
> > EditItemTemplate and the error message is not being fired anymore. Can
> > anyone give me more details about this?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Ana
>
> > On Sep 14, 9:32 am, Ana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > This problem is really driving me nuts! I'm working in a diferent page
> > > now, and am having the same problem (always associated with a
> > > formview). In the page I'm working now, the problem happened when I
> > > updated a record. I updated a record in the FormView, the GridView was
> > > bound correctly, but when I tried to update another record the "fail
> > > to load view state" error was fired again.
> > > I'm not creating any controls dinamically. I can't understand what is
> > > happening at all!
> > > I don't think that make EnableEventValidation="false" is the better
> > > way to solve this problem. As you said, Raghupathi, "we are giving a
> > > way to hacker to intrude by disabling the event validation".
> > > Anyone here already had this problem and can help me with this? I
> > > appreciate all help!
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Ana
>
> > > On Sep 9, 11:55 pm, Raghupathi Kamuni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > To solve this problem,
>
> > > > <pages enableEventValidation="false"/> in Web.Config or,
> > > > <%@ Page EnableEventValidation="false" %> in a page attribute
>
> > > > By doing this, we are giving a way to hacker to intrude by disabling the
> > > > event validation.
>
> > > > This can be prevented by use of RegisterForEventValidation methods of
> > > > ClientScriptManager class
>
> > > > We need to register the server control ID with the all the possible 
> > > > values
> > > > that can be posted by JavaScript by that control in Render Event of the 
> > > > page
> > > > using
>
> > > > ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation()
>
> > > > Check out this for the relavant 
> > > > articlehttp://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/221_Using_JavaScript_Effect...
>
> > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Raghupathi Kamuni 
> > > > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > > > ViewState  and Dynamic Control
> > > > >http://geekswithblogs.net/FrostRed/archive/2007/02/17/106547.aspx
>
> > > > >http://weblogs.asp.net/alessandro/archive/2008/01/04/failed-to-load-v...
>
> > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Ana <[email protected]> 
> > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > >> Hi,
>
> > > > >> In my page I have a Gridview and a FormView. For each row in the
> > > > >> GridView, there's a linkButton *Details* that shows the FormView with
> > > > >> the information about the selected record in the GridView.
> > > > >> In the FormView, users are able to edit and delete records. However,
> > > > >> every time I cancel the editing of a record and try to see the
> > > > >> formview for this record (clicking in *Details* on the GridView), I
> > > > >> have the following error message:
>
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Failed to load viewstate.  The control tree into which viewstate is
> > > > >> being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save
> > > > >> viewstate during the previous request.  For example, when adding
> > > > >> controls dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must 
> > > > >> match
> > > > >> the type and position of the controls added during the initial
> > > > >> request.
> > > > >> --
>
> > > > >> What is happening here? Why this error message in being fired?
>
> > > > >> Thanks in advance,
>
> > > > >> Ana

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