.NET MVC3 HttpRequestValidation & JSON

I'm new to MVC3 framework (and .NET overall; Java veteran), so bear with me, but here goes:

Input submitted to a Controller as JSON doesn't seem to be subject to the HttpRequestValidation -- Does that sound right?

I realize if you're receiving data input via JSON you're possibly al开发者_运维百科ready doing more work with it, but the Controller Action doesn't seem to necessarily know whether it has JSON data at that point; input values are mapped to parameters just as they would be if they were standard POST params.

Example - I'm asynchronously submitting JSON data to my Controller like the following:

    var data = { "title": $titleField.val(), "content": $textArea.val(),
        "location": $location.val()
    };

    $.ajax(submitUrl,
        {
            type: "POST",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            complete: function (data) {
                //blah blah
            },
            dataType: 'json',
            data: JSON.stringify(data)
        });
    }

I then receive the input in my Action:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public ActionResult New(string title = "", string content = "", string location = "")
    {
    //yada yada
    }

Doing this, params are mapped and the user can easily send tags, etc. I'm not turning ValidateInput off, and if I submit with a standard POST and remove the Stringify, it throws the error as expected. Any good reason why JSONified data would skip validation?

Edit - More specific question: If JSONified data will pass HttpRequestValidation, how can we protect against the event where someone would intentionally mock a request to send JSON data instead of post params? I haven't found a way to force the Action method to differentiate between params passed as JSON vs. those passed non-encoded.

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Got an answer for my question over on asp.net - See 2nd response.

Solution involves replacing the default ModelBinder.

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Any good reason why JSONified data would skip validation?

JSON is encoded => so it ensures that what transits over the wire is safe. When you use JSON.stringify all dangerous characters are encoded.