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RE: To validate or not to validate: Client side validation

From: Paul Melson (pmelsongmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2010 - 15:14:19 CDT

> Question: You are doing code review and come across a javascript
> application that does not do input validation. Would you have the
> developer go back and write in input validation? If so, why? If not,
> why?

Where does the app run? If it's client-side, and there's no user-interface
gains, I would leave it alone and settle for validating that any server-side
component of the app is handling input validation. The reason being the
obvious - that client-side input validation is trivially circumvented, so
it's not worth my time or the developer's.

PaulM

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