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I have a landing page that I am using SSJS to submit form fields to a data extension. The form fields contain HTML characters (which will import to the Data Extension fine) but, trying to update the Data Extension from the landing page throws this error:

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

The error is being thrown because the field contains < and > characters.

I am wondering if there is a way to replace those characters before submitting, or encode them in some way prior to entering the data extension? I know AMPscript has a Replace function, but not sure how I can use it within SSJS to achieve what I'm after.

Is there a Replace function, or something similar within SSJS? Or another way to approach submitting these fields to the data extension?

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Base64Decode() is available in SSJS. You would have to encode before sending in.

http://help.exacttarget.com/en-US/documentation/exacttarget/content/server_side_javascript/server_side_javascript_syntax_guide/core_library_server_side_javascript_functions/utilities_server_side_javascript_functions/

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You can replace in SSJS as you can in AMPScript.

I would go for urlencoding, so it stays sort of human readable in the DE and can be shown on e.g. a cloudpage.

<script type="javascript" runat="server">
Platform.Load("core","1")
var yourinput = "<html></html>";
yourinput = yourinput.replace("<","%3C");
yourinput = yourinput.replace(">","%3E");
Write(yourinput);
</script>

outputs:

%3Chtml%3E

See https://www.urldecoder.org/

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