But Dave, they don't have to _fully_ check the email syntax, which I admit is enormously complex. If the email you provide doesn't work, the non-arrival of the your activation key is all the checking that's needed. They are trying to be helpful to you by stopping you from accidentally entering an obviously incorrect address.
And yes, they need to fully vet the input at the server side but there it's for security, eg to protect themselves from injection attacks, not invalid email addresses. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:20 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On a side grumble: I just hate broken Javascript field checkers that >> reject valid input. >> >> "[email protected]" is not valid value for "E-mail" >> >> BS! Read the RFCs, ass-clowns. > > I've seen an email-address-checking regular expression which was said to > fully support the RFCs. It's the biggest, longest load of gibberish I ever > saw. Seriously, it's huge. So it's little wonder that validation systems > take shortcuts. > > HTML5 has a specific type of input field for email addresses which negates > the need for the javascript, but it'll still need to be validated on the > server-side because you must never ever trust client-side input. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
