in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Registration Error
in thread Registration Error

I meant that I was already doing database prints to see if things were being stored, all I added new was your UPDATE change but that didn't fix the problem.

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sulfericacid

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Re:^6 Registration Error
by poj (Abbot) on Mar 08, 2003 at 19:27 UTC
    OK, I think the problem is the accountAD ie the email address includes a @ character which needs escaping when you use it in a URL 
    sub email {

my $accountAD = CGI::escape( "$form{'usermail'}" ); ## here

open (MAIL, "|$sendmail -t") or die "Cannot access mail";
  print MAIL "To: $form{'usermail'}\n";
  print MAIL "From: $adminmail\n";
  print MAIL "Subject: Verify your Email Address\n\n";
  print MAIL "http://sulfericacid.perlmonk.org/evs/revised.pl?accountI
+D=$accountID&accountAD=$accountAD\n";
close (MAIL);
}

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[d/l]
      That does make sense actually. I tried escape the email address and noticed in the url thats sent it says your%40address.com . Are there any other characters in the $ID itself that need to be escaped incase it's a special character? I originally allowed & to be in there but someone said to remove that unless I wanted to escape it (it's removed) but I'm not sure if any of the other characters are special.

      Thanks!

      "Age is nothing more than an inaccurate number bestowed upon us at birth as just another means for others to judge and classify us"

      sulfericacid
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