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Mo Validation Mo Problems (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 32 minutes ago

There's an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names...