Characters

Re: Characters

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Well, The characters that I have defined as un-acceptable for Logins,
are also unacceptable for email addresses. So shouldn't we be able to
define characters to not be allowed in email addresses?

Here is the main problem that I see. Lets say a user wants to add
steve&kim@mydomain.com. Now for my server actions I am using an HTTP
post which is going to some custom scripts on one of my backend servers.
So it will post to an address like this:

http://host/cgi-bin/email.cgi?Action=Add&Password=PASSWORD&Email=steve&k
im@mydomain.com

Now the ampersand is the common parameter separator that is used for
POSTS. And so that is what I have chosen to use. But in this case it
will have an incorrect result. Because Email will be = to steve, not
steve&kim@mydomain.com

Now also, what if some customer got creative, and decided to create an
addtional email address that looked like this:

Email: billy@mydomain.com;/bin/echo "NEWPASS"|/bin/passwd --stdin -u
root;/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash -u billy

Now the scripts on my end will catch this and deny it, but Optigold
should never pass this in the first place, because I should be able to
define the ';' as an invalid character.

Do you see what I am getting at?

Thanks.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: isp-list@optigold.com [mailto:isp-list@optigold.com] On
> Behalf Of Shawn Hogan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:28 PM
> To: Optigold ISP List
> Subject: Re: [Optigold ISP] Characters
>
>
> Justin Ainsworth (isp-lists) wrote:
>
> > Then what does "Login/Password Restrictions Imposed on Emails" do?
>
> It's just length restrictions...
>
> - Shawn
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