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I think a lot of sites have caught on to the + trick, though, because more are more disallow the + character in the email validator.
by bathat 14y ago
I think a lot of sites have caught on to the + trick, though, because more are more disallow the + character in the email validator.
- kefs 14y agoI wish they wouldn't.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addr...
- pyre 14y agoMore like laziness. They probably only allow something like: ^[a-z0-9_.]+@(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)+\.[a-z0-9]+$
- jfoster 14y agoIn my experience it's been ignorance rather than laziness. I suppose you could argue that the root cause of the ignorance is laziness. If someone is writing a validator, they probably ought to check what constitutes valid input.
- rhizome 14y agoIt's not a sign of catching on, but of using an old email validation pattern from the days of Matt's Script Archive (seemingly). It's the sign of a website that has used cargo-code programmers. You're probably just seeing it more because you're trying to use plus-addressing more often (confirmation bias), but it's been this way for years and years. It's actually better now than it used to be.