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I know of an online store that if you use a + in your email address, will fail to charge you for any goods you order. I'm assuming because something somewhere
by hahainternet 11y ago
I know of an online store that if you use a + in your email address, will fail to charge you for any goods you order.
I'm assuming because something somewhere on their backend assumes that '+' is an invalid email character and refuses to process the job. This is unbelievably common.
- omnibrain 11y agoI had all kinds of trouble trouble with my abc@firstname.lastname.name mailadress. Some did not recognize .name. Others had trouble with the third level domain. Sometimes the sign-up worked but something in the backend broke...
- dewey 11y agoI can't even change my email adress to my .me domain on facebook because they keep telling me it's an invalid domain ending.
- philh 11y agoI remember finding somewhere that let me sign up with a +, but not log in with it - unless I disabled client-side validation, at which point the server was happy to let me in.
- arthurcolle 11y agoThat's insanely insecure. Can't believe client side validation would be used for a login system other than as a first check
- philh 11y agoI still needed the password (or so I assume). It was just a first check that was stricter than it should have been.
- hahainternet 11y agoIf you ever order from HobbyKing (not the store I mentioned previously) do NOT have a plus in your email. It gets converted silently to a space in their internal systems and their customer support has absolutely 0 access or escalation. They outsource everything, and ultimately it took me months to sort everything out.
- to3m 11y agoI hope I get lucky with something like that one day! It's more usual that the front end thinks '+' is invalid too. The usual result is that my signup attempt is blocked. And when I send them feedback about it, I'm roundly ignored.