private static void ValidateRequest(HttpRequestBase request) {
// DevDiv 214040: Enable Request Validation by default for all controller requests
//
// Note that we grab the Request's RawUrl to force it to be validated. Calling ValidateInput()
// doesn't actually validate anything. It just sets flags indicating that on the next usage of
// certain inputs that they should be validated. We special case RawUrl because the URL has already
// been consumed by routing and thus might contain dangerous data. By forcing the RawUrl to be
// re-read we're making sure that it gets validated by ASP.NET.
request.ValidateInput();
string rawUrl = request.RawUrl;
}