Closed Bug 103882 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Valid e-mail address submitted in HTML form is bounced as invalid

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
PowerPC
Mac System 9.x
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57720

People

(Reporter: paul.carr, Assigned: rods)

References

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URL
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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC)
BuildID:    2001091311

I am unable to submit my e-mail address via an HTML <INPUT> tag.  The valid, 
correctly spelled e-mail address comes back as invalid.  This only happens with 
Mozilla.  It is why I must use another browser to submit this bug.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter valid e-mail address
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Check e-mail syntax
 
The e-mail address you entered (paul.carr@jhuapl.edu) didn't match our minimal 
syntax checking for a legal email address. A legal address must contain exactly 
one '@', and at least one '.' after the @, and may not contain any commas or 
spaces. It must also not contain any of these special characters: \ ( ) & < > , ; 
: " [ ] or any whitespace.


Expected Results:  Submitted valid e-mail address.

This doesn't just happen at Bugzilla.  For example:
https://signin.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/signin.woa

or:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/ref=gw_hp_si/104-7902478-
0043120?opt=oa&page=misc/login/flex-sign-in-secure.html&response=subst/recs/
instant-recs-home-post-login.html

and every form that wants an e-mail address
You want to go into preferences, Navigator > Languages
and check whether you have "Armenian" set as your default encoding.  Please
comment in this bug if you do.

How long have you been seeing this problem?  Have you used anything older than
0.9.4 (eg NS 6.x) on this profile recently?
For some mysterious reason, my default language was set to Armenian.  However, 
setting this to "Mac Roman" didn't help - in fact it made things worse.

> Have you used anything older than 0.9.4 (eg NS 6.x) on this profile recently?

I was using 0.9.3  until a couple of weeks ago, but was having the same problem 
there.

Paul, you want to set the default encoding to "Western (ISO-8859-1)".  That will
make things happy.

Since you've been seeing this for a while, this looks like a duplicate of the
old "Armenian character encoding picked if language dropdown doesn't completely
populate [and thus can't login to bugzilla] [form submission encoding wrong]"
problem.  Marking so.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57720 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
changing default character coding to ISO-8859-1 does NOT help.  Here's the 
Bugzilla error message. after entering paul.carr@jhuapl.edu for e-mail address

The e-mail address you entered (paul©carr@jhuapl©edu) didn't match our minimal 
syntax checking for a legal email address. A legal address must contain exactly 
one '@', and at least one '.' after the @, and may not contain any commas or 
spaces. It must also not contain any of these special characters: \ ( ) & < > , ; 
: " [ ] or any whitespace.

I dont have any problems in the latest builds... did you try installing a more
recent build?
Re-installed Mozilla (same build number, apparently), and this bug went away.

great! verifying
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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