The Forgotten Art of Email Address Verification: ASP Alliance

Print Add To Favorites Email To Friend Rate This Article
The Forgotten Art of Email Address Verification

page 2 of 5

by Joshua Finer
Feedback

Average Rating: This article has not yet been rated.
Views (Total / Last 10 Days): 28184/ 125

Article Contents:

1. Base Level Validation

This is the type of email validation that most current web sites use. Code will generally be in-line and simply look for a “@” and a “.” in the email address. This is extremely inadequate and needs to be upgraded. The reason that most sites use this method is that it is easy to code. An example in VBScript would be:

	StrAddress = Request.Form(“emailaddress”)
	If InStr(1,StrAddress,”@”,vbTextCompare) = 0 OR InStr(1,StrAddress,”.”,vbTextcompare) = 0 Then
		Response.Redirect("badaddress.html")
	Else
		<continue form processing>
	End If

« (Page 1)

View Entire Article

(Page 3) »

Article Feedback

Comment:
Title:
Name:
Url:	( Optional )

Please add 4 and 5 and type the answer here:

User Comments

Title: Owsem.....
Name: chanchal
Date: 10/14/2009 5:29:21 AM
Comment:
This article could be more easier if ther is snippet.But isnt mean its bad its fine .
Rocks.........

Title: Great & Help Full
Name: Atul Khandelwal
Date: 3/28/2007 3:09:57 AM
Comment:
This is surely a good article but you could have atleast explained the last header width a snippet
this articla is really good and help full

Title: great
Name: Manmeet
Date: 8/4/2006 7:40:50 PM
Comment:
The article is really very good

Title: Good
Name: Gaurav
Date: 6/10/2006 2:36:39 AM
Comment:
This is surely a good article but you could have atleast explained the last header width a snippet

Title: thanks for the info!!
Name: BH
Date: 5/7/2006 11:00:55 AM
Comment:
thanks!

Title: Intelligent Web Search
Name: Po
Date: 7/14/2005 1:59:25 AM
Comment:
ddd

Product Spotlight