[jira] Commented: (VALIDATOR-278) EmailValidator approves email addresses with hostnames starting with a dash/hyphen

["Chris Lee (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris Lee commented on VALIDATOR-278:
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This appears to have been fixed shortly after the 1.3.1 release. You can build the 1.4 snapshot from source and both of those statements will return false.

> EmailValidator approves email addresses with hostnames starting with a dash/hyphen
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VALIDATOR-278
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VALIDATOR-278
>             Project: Commons Validator
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.1 Release
>            Reporter: Pål Orby
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> These examples returns true
> {code:java}
> EmailValidator.getInstance().isValid("someone@-test.com"); // hostname starts with dash/hyphen
> EmailValidator.getInstance().isValid("someone@test-.com"); // hostname ends with dash/hypen
> {code}
> but should return false according to [Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname]: Hostname labels cannot begin or end with a hyphen. 

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