Re: aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Numien wrote: On 24/09/10 04:03 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:59:53AM +0100, Bob Walker wrote: I recently found that in our work software that even though we use email addresses as the username we dont actually check this properly so a

Re: aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:11, Numien wrote: > Yes, but knowing the trend in case-sensitivity, an.exam...@example.com > is likely also not the same as an.exam...@example.com... which should be. And it should also be the same as an . example @ example (this is not a real domain) . com , but

Re: aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Numien
On 24/09/10 04:03 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:59:53AM +0100, Bob Walker wrote: > >> I recently found that in our work software that even though we use >> email addresses as the username we dont actually check this properly >> so an.exam...@example.com and an.exam...@

Re: aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:59:53AM +0100, Bob Walker wrote: >I recently found that in our work software that even though we use >email addresses as the username we dont actually check this properly >so an.exam...@example.com and an.exam...@example.com can be different >users. This has confused u

Re: aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Joshua Juran wrote: P.S. Adding '$num =~ s/[() -]//g' before the validation would be prohibitively invasive and costly. Of course, gratuitously converting my email address to all caps (in violation of every version of the standard) is no problem. I recently found that

aa.com, "Create Flight Status Notification"

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua Juran
This is a variation on the brain-damaged credit card number input field (where they couldn't be bothered to add one line of code to filter out spaces, but go to the effort to document this limitation -- or not) that you all know and hate. This time it's a phone number. The difference is th

Re: Hating our product's CLI shell

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Brown
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Michael G Schwern writes: > > > You're in good company. > > > > $ python > > Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 11 2010, 00:50:55) > > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "l