Guys,
On some websites the login system prohibits certain characters from the
username. Is there a reason for this?
I’ve never seen the same with passwords - has anyone else?
Cheers,
George
On 11/13/06, George P. [email protected] wrote:
On some websites the login system prohibits certain characters from the
username. Is there a reason for this?
Ones that might be delimiters or prone to sql injection attacks.
Sometimes they’re just stupid, like not permitting a space in the
surname (like ::cough:: the US Department of Education).
–
_Deirdre http://deirdre.net/
Not so stupid if you want to do usernames in urls though … ala
http://flickr.com/photos/hmarq/106945212/
Same with many of the special characters …
http://somesite.com/username/profile, http://