1032144 - Registration panel does not allow to registration when write symbol "+" in username and password

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Users and Groups, task)

Description

[Alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to https://support.allizom.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop/download-and-install/form?search=***********%2B&step=aaq-register
2. Write user name "alex++++++" in user panel.


Actual results:

Does not taken this user name


Expected results:

Must do new user whit symbol "+"

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

From irc:

    <r1cky> we dont want usernames with +

I agree with Ricky. Usernames with + will complicate urls that contain usernames. We treat usernames as slugs, and so usernames have similar restriction to article slugs.