Golang : Normalize email to prevent multiple signups example
Tags : golang normalize-email govalidator multiple-signups
If your application allows the public to sign up, chances are your application will attract the "unkind" types and they will attempt to sign up multiple times with the same email address by mixing symbols, upper and lower cases and adding dots to make variants of the same email address.
To prevent this sort of multiple sign ups, you can try to normalize(canonicalize - treat them as the same) the email addresses by removing the unwanted cases, symbols,etc. Below is an example of how to normalize email address with govalidator.NormalizeEmail()
function.
At this moment, the NormalizeEmail()
function only supports gmail.com accounts. You might want to see the source code in govalidator
package to modify it for your own requirement.
package main
import (
"github.com/asaskevich/govalidator"
"log"
)
func main() {
email := "sammy+SPammer@gmail.com"
normalized, err := govalidator.NormalizeEmail(email)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Before : ", email)
log.Println("Normalized email : ", normalized)
}
Output :
NOTE : IF gmail, anything after + symbol will be removed
2015/08/11 14:43:28 Before : sammy+SPammer@gmail.com
2015/08/11 14:43:28 Normalized email : sammy@gmail.com
change to another domain name, the result will be different.
2015/08/11 14:51:18 Before : sammy+SPammer@somewhere.com
2015/08/11 14:51:18 Normalized email : sammy
+spammer
@somewhere.com
Reference :
Tags : golang normalize-email govalidator multiple-signups
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