email validation bug: preventing contact-us submission and access to bmwfs #144
Description
caveat: this is unrelated to bmwcarit/barefoot, but about a real life customer with a very specific bug that should absolutely be backlogged/fixed somewhere, not lost in a ~less contextual support ticket from a CS Rep
reproduce in <30 seconds:
visit contactform.bmwusa.com, enter [email protected] for email, and hit submit.
repeat with [email protected] to see a successful validation example, showing current ~arbitrary requirement of >= 2 characters
(above form link'd via https://www.bmwusa.com/contact-us.html)
(my actual email hostname is my github username)
The above error code is categorically false:
2.) perhaps more reasonably straightforward: I use that email address. Every time. Every day. 😄
This validation error seems to have been causing some trouble on at-least one back end service as well. (see attached network log)
This issue has prevented me from any authorization/access to my bmwfs acct via web/mobile.
couldnt even sign up for autopay without a paper form physically mailed to me and returned otherwise.
the fix:
update the regular expressions found via:
curl https://my.bmwusa.com/etc/designs/bmwusacontactus/clientlib-all.js | grep -n "var email_regex"
(note the ...{2,}... in the response, requiring a localaddr length of at-least 2)
stackoverflow seems to have some answers w.r.t. a more-correct regex, and the idea of utilizing a pkg/lib instead.
feel free to delete/tag wontfix, but the >0% chance of this bug falling through the cracks with customer service makes me feel that opening an issue on y'alls github org would increase our chances for success.