HTML Injections... Help?

Question

I'm new in html, so I wanna know...
How many different types of codes can you inject in html? I know about java script, SQL... Do you know of more?
Is it possible to run Visual Basic script in html?

doerickson, can you tell me is there a way to run a file (.exe) using html?

Answer 1

Other scripting languages that can be used with HTML to create dynamic pages are:

* VBScript, which let you create Active Server Pages (ASP);

* VB.NET and C#, which let you create ASP.NET pages;

* Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) which uses a language similar to C;

* JavaServer Pages (JSP), which uses Java;

* ColdFusion, which has a native programming language called ColdFusion Markup Language; and

* Ruby on Rails, which uses the Ruby programming language.

Each of the above will allow you to connect to databases and run SQL queries, as well as perform most any other programming function, and let you use the results to create dynamic web pages.

ASP and ASP.NET are free, but natively only run on Windows web servers (although there may be software out there now that lets you run them on UNIX servers). PHP is free, and most commonly runs on top of the Apache web server, which has implementations on most of the popular operating systems. Not sure about JSP. ColdFusion is proprietary and costs a couple thousand dollars for the server software. Ruby on Rails is free.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Javascript can be part of your html page and will run in the browser. There are lots of other scripting languages that can be run from commands embedded in the html.

Visual basic can be run server-side by servers running Microsoft software. It is one of the languages used for .NET and ASP pages. You can also run VB (and a number of other languages) client-side (i.e. on the user's machine) using ActiveX, but for the most part that works only in Internet Explorer.

Java runs client-side, with a Java plug-in installed in the browser.

On the server, in addition to a variety of languages specifically designed for web use (PHP, Python, Cold Fusion, Ruby on Rails, etc.), you can run virtually anything using CGI (Common Gateway Interface).