E-mail validators that fail to validate
Fri, 2008-05-30 18:45 — chris
This drives me nuts. Latest today (gigaset.siemens.com) - the contact form simply rejects e-mail addresses with a + in them (perfectly valid according to the standards/RFC's - see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html 3.2.4 Atom - definition of atext).
Why would you want a + ? Well - in my case it allows me to have user+uniquestring@chrissearle.org - therefore allowing me to use unique addresses per site I use. All pretty normal stuff. But - web validators just don't seem to get it (and in some cases the companies behind it aren't interested in fixing it either). Only a short list to start with (there have been more instances of this than I can recall right now).
Sites that do the same thing (will be added to as I find more):
- gigaset.siemens.com
- geocaching.com
- groundspeak.com
- britishairways.com
Reasonably uninteresting - but - really annoying.
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