I am using a regular expression to validate email addresses and not accept an email address from a domain identified as providing a free email service. This is done based on the domain name in the email address.
The problem is that a valid email address (valid domain) is being rejected as invalid.
"usa.com" is a domain that is included on the blacklist.
"dccusa.com" is being rejected, even though it is not on the blacklist. I assume this is because it contains the domain "usa.com" which is on the blacklist.
Here is my test code:
<script language="JavaScript" src="blacklist.js"></scrip
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var blacklist = new RegExp(blacklist.join("|")
var emailVar = "test@dccusa.com";
if(emailPart=emailVar.matc
if(blacklist.test(emailPar
alert("It appears that you have entered an email address from a free email service provider.
Unfortunately, we do not accept registrations from these email addresses. Please enter a
different email address or call for assistance.");
}
} else {
alert("Please enter valid email address.");
}
alert ("The End.")
</script>
The following is what a segment of the blacklist looks like:
...
,"post.com"
,"sanfranmail.com
,"soon.com"
,"usa.com"
,"yours.com"
,"saudia.com"
,"terra.com.br"
,"uol.com.br"
,"yahoo.com"
...
What can I do so that "dccusa.com" will not be rejected as a valid domain for email?
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ddrudik:
Your suggestion did not work, but I understood what you were trying to do and I applied the concept in a different way to get the solution.
I added a space after the | in the following line:
var blacklist = new RegExp(blacklist.join("| "));
This put a space before each domain name in the list.
Then I changed the test to include a space:
if(blacklist.test(" " + emailPart[2])){
This worked.
b0lsc0tt:
I could not figure out what you were telling me to do. I tried a few things based on the code you provided, but they did not work.
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by: ddrudikPosted on 2007-10-23 at 12:25:19ID: 20133734
I would change:
if(blacklist.test(emailPar
To:
if(blacklist.test('"' + emailPart[2] + '"')){