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HTML encoding to protect against XSS

While going through some references about protection against XSS i found that it is a good practice to encode data (entered by users) before using it to generate a dynamic page. I was not able to find ...
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Is $_SERVER[ ] a safe source of data in PHP?

Can I 100% rely on $_SERVER[] to be a safe source of data that I do not need to sanitized like I do $_GET[] and $_POST[]? Thanks. OVERVIEW OF RESPONSES: So it seems there is a consensus that some ...
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Canonicalization & Output Encoding

I'm reading OWASP's Secure Coding Practices Checklist and under their "Input Validation" section they have an item that reads: If any potentially hazardous characters (<>"'%()&+\\'\") ...
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Working of WAF/IDS/IPS payload normalization schemes?

I want to know how WAF/IDS/IPS deals with Payload Transformations. Such payload transformations may be base64Encode html EntityDecode url Encode Remove whitespaces I want to know how WAF/IDS/IPS ...