Johnathan - This is easy to read, nicely commented - thanks!
I'll run / test / think about it, perhaps comment more later. - Yarko On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Proposed patch: http://lobitos.net/web2py-patches/gluon/validators.py > > I've deviated from the RFCs in a couple of places. I'm not allowing > quoted strings for names (neither did the old regex), partly because > I'm not entirely convinced that they're safe, and partly because the > doctest mechanism is problematical in testing certain escaped patterns > that are legal in quoted strings. A possible compromise would be to > allow quotes and be more restrictive about what's allowed in them, if > anyone feels strongly about it. > > Domain checking is similar to what we had before, except that single- > letter domains (b.com) are allowed, and I've relaxed the TLD length > restraint from {2,9} to {2,}. As before, we allow embedded > underscores, which are not formally legal, but have been used by > Windows. > > The philosophy is that we can't protect the user against all typos, > and we'd prefer to err on the side of permissiveness where it makes > sense, while adhering to the spirit of the RFCs and taking note of > general practice. > > If anyone sees any problems, please submit them in the form of > additional doctests (and an optional patch) and I'll deal with them. > > I believe that any address that validated before will continue to > validate now. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
