[ic] [error.. tag and e-mail format usernames problem

Wed Oct 3 21:12:00 2001

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:37PM -0400, Jim Balcom wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Bruno Cantieni wrote:
> 
> BC>>I'm developing a series of stores on IC 4.6.5
> BC>>The client requests usernames be in e-mail format.
> BC>>The only problem with this I have run into so far is that e.g. on the checkout page no errors are
> BC>>displayed when using e-mail format usernames, while it works fine with regular names.
> BC>>The message "There were errors in your last submission.
> BC>>They are shown in RED below." is displayed, so it certainly traps the errors, alas, the [error
> BC>>std_label="anything".....] tags don't generate the error messages.
> BC>>
> BC>>Can someone shed light on this?

Just a **guess**, but the first thing I'd do is dig through the error
code looking for double quotes.  Or test it with a "regular" name but
with an embedded "@".  It's **probably** just a perl interpolation issue.

Any usernames run into a namespace issue.  I can't be cfm everywhere, but
I can always be cfm@maine.com.

cfm

> 
> Joachim Richter sent me a link that other day when he was asking me about
> stock alerts.
> 
> When I checked it out, the guy (I can't remember his name  [you know what
> they say about getting old!] but I give him a lot of credibility) was doing
> e-mail log ins as a part of his stock alert function.
> 
> http://developer2.akopia.com/archive/interchange-users/2001/msg06143.html
> 
> BC>>Can I expect other problems to crop up using e-mail addresses as usernames??
> 
> I can't see why.
> 
> Personally, I have mixed emotions about it. Many of the various sites where
> I have accounts use e-mail for log ins. However, I've got at least a half
> dozen different e-mail addresses, depending on what I am doing. So, it's
> always questionable as to what e-mail address I used when I opened that
> account. Most people only have one e-mail address (I think) so it should
> work fine.
> 
> 
> -= Jim =-
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