Mastering HTML5 Forms

Spoofing and forging forms

Nowadays, every website has an HTML form to complete for registration so that users can have access to that particular website. Since Internet crime is steadily increasing, how do we validate that the user who completed the form did so through your website? It is therefore necessary to know that no one has spoofed our form submission.

Before, we see how we can protect our forms from spoofing, let us see how we can spoof a form. By following these two ways we can alter the form submission:

• Forging HTTP requests
• Spoofing submissions

Forging HTTP requests

We can type our own requests by using telnet to access port 80. So, botheration of generating or modifying forms for every type of attack is overcome by this method as it might ...