[dev] Fwd: [horde] Fwd: Case insensitive unique key

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Seems like the consensus is for lowercasing/normalizing. And no one  
> speaking against it. Can we consider this a done decision?

Yes, I think so.

> Are we set up to make this change in the develop branch?

I'm not sure if we should do this for Horde 4.1 or rather wait for Horde 5?

Also, there are some technical things to ponder, i.e. do we normalize  
before or after authentication? If after authentication, what to do  
with "hordeauth"? Use the original or normalized name? Depending on  
the implementation, this might be a BC break, so it's possible it has  
to wait for H5.

This could be done in a feature branch in any case though.

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>    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:38:51 +0300
>    From: Vilius ?umskas <vilius at lnk.lt>
> Subject: Re: [horde] Fwd: [dev] Case insensitive unique key
>      To: horde at lists.horde.org
>
>> On 05/03/2011 01:24 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 May 2011, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>>> Admins,
>>>>
>>>> please take a look at this conversation on the developer mailing list.
>>>> This is the context for the question if we should normalize all user
>>>> names to lower case in Horde 5.
>>>
>>> I have always used a hook to lowercase all usernames. I had confused
>>> users say that their preferences were gone because they logged in with a
>>> different case for their username. So I decided they should all be
>>> lowercase.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>> We had to do the same thing in the past (force lowercase) as well as
>> removing spaces from the start and end of userids.
>>
>> So I agree with normalizing.
>
> +1 from me. I also agree that using trim() on the username is  
> another good idea. Not sure why IMAP servers allow to login with  
> usernames with spaces.
>
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Jan.

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