On 11/5/23 10:34, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
Indeed. There is a tiny but brightly burning kernel of hate in my
heart for web sites (and their developers) that refuse to accept
credit card numbers entered with spaces _as_they_are_shown_on_the_card_!
I've concluded that using PHP causes debilitating and irreversible
brain damage.
I think it's the attitude that speed of deployment is more important
than any other factor, rather than just PHP :-) Plus a bunch of that
stuff is also coded in the front end (aka Javascript).
Phone numbers.
Credit card numbers.
Names (in my case - my wife has a hypenated surname which is almost as
deadly as non-alpha characters in a name which was already mentioned in
this diverging thread)
and addresses. living rurally we have two addresses: a post office
rural route box for USPS and a "street address" for anyone else. The
former looks like "{locationID} Box {number}". The single word "Box"
often triggers "we don't deliver to P.O. Boxes" - it's not a PO Box, and
it's the only address USPS will deliver to, so get over yourself. Or
triggers fraud detection alerts, because "billing address" != "shipping
address".
it's astonishing how bad so many websites are at what should be a
fundamental function: taking in user-supplied data in order to do
something valuable with it.
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