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Issue
When clicking the hyperlink control at Runtime, the following error appears:
"A potentially dangerous request. Path value was detected from the client(<)."
Symptoms
The following value is saved in the database:
<a href="<a href="http://xxxxxxx.html">Help</a>">Click Here</a>
The correct value should be as below:
<a href="https://help.k2.com/">Help</a>.
When checking K2 Designer, we found that the mapping value from this control to the database is not correct:
Troubleshooting Steps
You can resolve this issue by re-mapping the value to the database with a hyperlink control instead.