Comments on: Coming Soon: All Of Your E-mail Address and Web Site Fields Will Fail http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2009/11/coming-soon-all-of-your-e-mail-address-and-web-site-fields-will-fail/ You suspected it. Now you know it. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:47:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: scarytester http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2009/11/coming-soon-all-of-your-e-mail-address-and-web-site-fields-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-198 scarytester Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:19:05 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2009/11/02/coming-soon-all-of-your-e-mail-address-and-web-site-fields-will-fail/#comment-198 As Dewi says (see your trackback above), the change to enable foreign characters in URLs itself is not new (I'd put a link here but your blog is telling me off for having a "word" greater than 50 chars, even if it's a URL), but the change to allow them as country code top level domains (.uk, .au, .jp etc) is. In any case, this post has highlighted that it's even more important to check this kind of validation in applications, because it has been established for some time now and there's a good chance that it's not being dealt with. As Dewi says (see your trackback above), the change to enable foreign characters in URLs itself is not new (I’d put a link here but your blog is telling me off for having a “word” greater than 50 chars, even if it’s a URL), but the change to allow them as country code top level domains (.uk, .au, .jp etc) is.

In any case, this post has highlighted that it’s even more important to check this kind of validation in applications, because it has been established for some time now and there’s a good chance that it’s not being dealt with.

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