interesting ... sorry if this has been discussed to death already.  If so, i'll shut 
up. =)

Shouldn't the decision of displaying the validation be up to the application developer?

For example, when changing a password, you would have a spot to enter old & new 
passwords, but would likely want to put some validation around the new one (min 6 
characters, etc).  What would be wrong with displaying that info to the user?

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- Nayan Hajratwala
- Chikli Consulting LLC
- http://www.chikli.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Derry [mailto:dderry@;acm.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:14 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: JavaScript Validation: MinLength & MaxLength Functions
Don't Work


This has been explained before. I think it was by Ted. The reason has to do
with security. Specifying bouinds on the length of a password limits the
universe of potential passwords that a cracker would need to test. And of
course if he/she saw a message saying "Password must be between 6 and 30
characters in length" that would provide that information.

Dave Derry


----- Original Message -----
From: "bachan s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


>
> Can you try removing the required from the depends for password and give
minlength and maxlength. Since minLength is mentioned required is not
necesary.
> Try it and let ue know.
> this may be considered as a bug in struts too.
> Thanks !
> Bachan
>
>  "Nekkalapudi, Viplava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My team can't get
the Struts client-side (i.e. JavaScript) validation
> framework to work. We want to ensure that a password is between 6 and 30
> characters. Has anyone been able to get these checks to work? The
"required"
> field check works, but the "minlength" and "maxlength" do not. Here's what
> our validation.xml file contains:
>
>
> depends="required">
>
>
> depends="required,minlength,maxlength">
>
>
>
>
>
> minlength
> 6
>
>
> maxlength
> 30
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> JOHN
>



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