S60-Cosminacho - bug | Stripe Developers | Page 1

rapid token Mar 21, 2022, 8:19 PM

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knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 8:19 PM

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email search is case sensitive via API

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if my customer wrote for example that his email is: Cosmin@gmail.com and in a different form his email is cosmin@gmail.com

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the search via API will just not give any results

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if I search after "cosmin@gmail.com"

rapid token Mar 21, 2022, 8:23 PM

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Interesting. Does the doc lay out that it should be case insensitive? I will check in to whether this is intended or not

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I know that emails are almost always treated case-insensitive so that does sound like something we may want to change

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 8:25 PM

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so, if in the checkout session I write the email as "Cosmin@emedi.ro" then this is how the email will be set in the stripe database.

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and this really makes some problems.

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 8:41 PM

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could you please give me an update here ? If the problem is soreted?

rapid token Mar 21, 2022, 8:42 PM

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Apologies, was working on other threads, looking in to this now.

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When I test this myself, the search is case insensitive

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Can you try this as a curl command and see if it still turns up nothing? curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/search/customers -u sk_test_123: \ --data-urlencode "query=email:'Cosmin@gmail.com'" \ -H "Stripe-Version: 2020-08-27;search_api_beta=v1" \ -G

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 8:47 PM

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lets see 🙂

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hmmmmmmm

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it doesn't recognise the URL

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tried with get 2

rapid token Mar 21, 2022, 8:58 PM

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That call should be a GET. Can you send me the setup for the call that you are making that is not returning any customers when you try to search by email?

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 8:58 PM

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I used a get too 🙂

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I did change it to /v1/customers

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This is a result of not finding anything. (with cosmin@emedi.ro as search.

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This is the search done with: Cosmin@emedi.ro in query.

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:01 PM

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Hello! Catching up...

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The local part of email addresses are case sensitive, so this is expected behavior.

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 9:02 PM

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what do you mean by "local part of email addresses?

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:02 PM

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The part before the @ is case-sensitive.

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 9:02 PM

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ahhhh

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:02 PM

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See here for more details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addresses-case-sensitive

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 9:04 PM

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wow...

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:05 PM

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Yep. My favorite comment on that one is:

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I work at a large company and there is another person with the same first and last name. I discovered today that his local-part differs from mine only in capitalization. This has been working properly, so I was surprised to see "no widely used mail systems distinguish different addresses based on case". We use MS Exchange which I would call "widely used".

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 9:06 PM

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ok.

I need a workaround around this

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is it possible that I can find out the email address of a completed checkout session?

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:08 PM

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Yes, it will be on the associated Customer: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object#checkout_session_object-customer

knotty prism Mar 21, 2022, 9:09 PM

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Let's see...I think I may be able to sort it out this way...:)

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thank you so much.

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Interesting case though...and even more interesting that you care about such an edge case 🙂

elfin estuary Mar 21, 2022, 9:13 PM

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Most email servers are configured with case-insensitive local parts, but not all, and if we didn't follow the spec here a non-trivial chunk of the Internet wouldn't work with Stripe. 🙂

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