Question

Very strange error, i have a field on an MVC View:

<%: Html.CheckBox("Reportable", ViewData["Reportable"])%>

Im guessing this is bad practice, but i need a boolean value, and am trying to get it from the FormCollection on postback by doing:

wasteStreamReciever.ERCBReportable = bool.Parse(Request.Form["Reportable"]);

Am i doing it wrong? Is there a better way?

edit

I have also tried to no avail:

bool bchk = false;
bool.TryParse(Request.Form["Reportable"], out bchk);

edit2

The exception being thrown is:

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client
System.Web.HttpRequestValidationException

Answer 1

An HTML checkbox should only pass its value when checked. If you only need to know whether the ‘Reportable’ box was checked, you don’t need to parse the value at all; you just need to see whether there is a value.