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Every time I've tried to use that feature, the email field in the registration form I'm trying to fill out rejects it because they don't like + in an email addr
by DougWebb 11y ago
Every time I've tried to use that feature, the email field in the registration form I'm trying to fill out rejects it because they don't like + in an email address. There are a lot of not-quite-correct email form validation routines out there. Or maybe this is selection bias: the forms where I'm most likely to want to use the + are with the companies that are most likely to want to resell my email address, and they may be intentionally rejecting the +.
- 6502nerdface 11y agoLots of programmers try to write regular expressions to validate e-mail addresses, but it's extremely difficult for them to get it right, because valid e-mail addresses as defined by RFCs 822 and 5322 fall outside the set of formal languages describable by most regular expression libraries. See this fun stackoverflow answer [0]. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/201378 http://stackoverflow.com/a/201378