top | item 44761893 (no title) Aulig | 7 months ago It's to fool primitive scrapers looking for e-mail addresses with the @ symbol. It's handled like that on the entire KIT website. discuss order hn newest amelius|7 months ago This can't be it because on mouseover I get the mailto: link with the @ symbol in it. CodesInChaos|7 months ago Contradictions like that are common. A popular example:* Failed login: I can't tell you if the username/email or password was wrong, since that'd reveal if the the user exists* Failed signup attempt with existing username/email: Cannot create an account, because a user with that username/email already exists load replies (1)
amelius|7 months ago This can't be it because on mouseover I get the mailto: link with the @ symbol in it. CodesInChaos|7 months ago Contradictions like that are common. A popular example:* Failed login: I can't tell you if the username/email or password was wrong, since that'd reveal if the the user exists* Failed signup attempt with existing username/email: Cannot create an account, because a user with that username/email already exists load replies (1)
CodesInChaos|7 months ago Contradictions like that are common. A popular example:* Failed login: I can't tell you if the username/email or password was wrong, since that'd reveal if the the user exists* Failed signup attempt with existing username/email: Cannot create an account, because a user with that username/email already exists load replies (1)
amelius|7 months ago
CodesInChaos|7 months ago
* Failed login: I can't tell you if the username/email or password was wrong, since that'd reveal if the the user exists
* Failed signup attempt with existing username/email: Cannot create an account, because a user with that username/email already exists