Forum OpenACS Development: Case sensitve email bug?

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1: Case sensitve email bug?
Posted by Jon Griffin on 04/30/03 06:59 PM
I have a site where a person signed up and today he complained that he wasn't able to get on.

Doing a quick user search I found out that he actually has 2 logins. Both the same from an email point of view, but one with all lowercase and the other with mixed upper/lower.

I haven't looked in depth at this problem yet, but it appears that the registration/login procs don't do a lower on comparison. I thought it used to.

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2: Re: Case sensitve email bug? (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 04/30/03 07:32 PM

Shouldn't it just insert in all lowercase the first time and lowercase the login email supplied by the user when comparing?

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3: Re: Case sensitve email bug? (response to 1)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 04/30/03 08:25 PM
I don't see where that lowercase happens, but I also can't duplicate it.
Somehow this one got by. I am still searching for a reason.
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4: Re: Case sensitve email bug? (response to 1)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 04/30/03 08:29 PM
In user-login.tcl it does a string tolower, and then compares.
I just can't see how there is anything in the db that isn't all lower.
I am not going to worry about it, it appears to be an anomoly.