Defect #27754
closed
  
Strip whitespace from email addresses on lost password page
 
        
        Added by Felix Schäfer almost 8 years ago.
        Updated almost 8 years ago.
        
Category:
Accounts / authentication
 
 
  
  
  
  Description
  
  Sometimes people will not notice that they copied and pasted or inadvertently entered a whitespace when entering their email address in the lost password page. This currently leads to no password recovery being sent as the whitespaces will prevent a user from being found.
   
 
  
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    The attached patch provides a test and strips whitespace from the entered email address.
 
     
   
  
  
    
    
    
    
       - Target version set to Candidate for next minor release
 
    
    
     
   
  
  
    
    
    
    
       - Tracker changed from Feature to Defect
 
       - Target version changed from Candidate for next minor release to 3.4.4
 
    
    Sometimes users say "Lost password page is not working". I understood the reason by seeing this patch!
	Setting target version to 3.4.4.
 
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
    
    
    
       - Status changed from New to Resolved
 
    
    
     
   
  
  
    
    
    
    
       - Related to Defect #22532: Strip whitespace from login on login page added
 
    
    
     
   
  
  
    
    
    
    I think that we should fix also the related issue (#22532) because is almost on the same topic.
 
     
   
  
  
    
    
    
    
       - Status changed from Resolved to Closed
 
       - Resolution set to Fixed
 
    
    Commited in the trunk and merged to 3.4-stable. Thank you for detecting and fixing this issue.
 
     
   
  
 
  
  
  
 
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