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Asked: 2026-06-13T08:17:33+00:00

I am using JQuery and Javascript extensively in my new project including form validation

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I am using JQuery and Javascript extensively in my new project including form validation because I don’t want to burden server using PHP validation. So I am restricting my site from the people who disabled Javascript on their browsers. I am trying to redirect them using meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; URL=../../enablejs.html">

I assume that this is safe because if javascript is not enabled they will not be able to access my site.

But still I have a doubt over this and need your advice. Is it completely safe? If not what are the area I need to concetrate?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a terrible, terrible idea.

    because I don’t want to burden server using PHP validation

    You mean, you don’t want to burden yourself with implementing it 🙂

    I can relate. Everyone hates doing stuff twice. But server side validation is not a negotiable extra; client side validation can be easily circumvented and is for user convenience only. Server side validation is always needed for safety and security.

    Apart from it being a bad idea, there is no way of reliably excluding users who have JavaScript turned off. JavaScript runs on client side, and its presence or non-presence can be easily faked to the server.

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