Why Limit the Format of a Password?

Why Limit the Format of a Password?(joshtronic.com)

3 points by joshtronic 12 years ago | 1 comment

ProNoob13 12 years ago |

I'm pretty sure it's so they don't have to quote the input before they run it through through their form regex to see if it's not malicious (XSS) user input.

ProNoob13 12 years ago |

I'm pretty sure it's so they don't have to quote the input before they run it through through their form regex to see if it's not malicious (XSS) user input.