The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses

Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by rickycook on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:34PM (#12449276)

scarier still is when they let you set it but fail to let you log in (generally happens more with length). i don't know what you're doing, but i know it's not right and it scares the hell out of me

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by AgentME on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:26PM (#12450075)

I had that happen because of length at an online service we needed to use in high school. I believe my password had 9 characters. After requesting a password reset and experimenting I found that the registration form would allow you to enter a password of any length, but the login form would only accept up to 8 characters. What really shocked me was that I was the only one of my classmates that used a password longer than 8 characters.

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by vidarh on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:19AM (#12450463)

Some places have been known to just truncate the password...

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by rikkus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:14AM (#12451160)

I see this all the time. They accept it and then when you go to log in, it fails. I usually try chopping it down to 32, 30, 24, 20, ... until I hit a match.

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by mariusc23 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:30PM (#12449807)

I've had that happen with Comcast. I think they fixed it but it was pretty annoying. The signup password input had no max length but the login form did.

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