OP here - thanks to everyone spreading this around. It's hardly viral, but getting good notice, which I appreciate. Quick word on the point of this - I origina

OP here - thanks to everyone spreading this around. It's hardly viral, but getting good notice, which I appreciate. Quick word on the point of this - I originally wrote it some time ago when I noticed a) a rise in the number of articles and discussions among "newbie" programmers about sophisticated hacking techniques and b) a rise in the number of forum (ie, Stackoverflow) questions that showed a lack of understanding of the very basics So this article is aimed at people getting into programming and maybe haven't completely grokked just exactly what a web form IS - without which, you really have no hope of writing good code or protecting yourself I consider this my "public service announcement", and I hope you'll share it with appropriate people so we can make our web a safer place.