[VALIDATOR-114] [validator] Email: inexisting dashes and TLD erroneously accepted

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 33409
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 05/Feb/05 18:28
• Updated: 12/Nov/07 19:25
• Resolved: 12/Nov/07 19:25

Description

The org.apache.commons.validator.EmailValidator javadoc even says that the
erroneous TLD "d-" is accepted.

Why don't you rule them out?

3 out of 4 test values org.apache.commons.validator.EmailTest.testEmailWithDash()
seem to be similarly far from reality w.r.t. their TLDs.

Shouldn't this code attempt to comply with

• http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm and
• http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld.htm

similarly, "[e-mail]" doesn't really appear to exist ever in practice
and still validates.

see also: COM-1356 and COM-1647