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How relevant is OWASP ASVS? [closed]

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Štef FoReal

How relevant is the OWASP application security verification standard? Have you had it as a requirement made by business? What other application security standards relevant to business are there? I did try to search for them, … Continue reading How relevant is OWASP ASVS? [closed]→

Why does OWASP ASVS require HTTP responses to have a content header specifying a character set?

Posted on May 4, 2016 by countermode

The OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), Version 3, states in clause V11.2:

Verify that every HTTP response contains a content type header specifying a safe character set (e.g., UTF-8, ISO 8859-1).

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