I've gone and created a ticket in RT for this (#31133), but wanted to also ping the list and see what other suggestions/thoughts might come up out of this...
------------------------------------------------------------ In my application we allow users to authenticate by "e-mail address", which is stored internally in all lower-case. Users, however, have a tendency to want to log in using mixed-case addresses like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I've been able to see that I can filter the credentials used to match up with the values in my DB (so that works), but the problem that I end up with is that all calls to "$self->authen->username()" still return the original -mixed-case- version that the user provided. This then causes some other things to go astray: - our post-login callback which keeps a "last login date/time" up-to-date for users has to be sure to force the username to lc() before using it, - CAP::Authorization breaks, as when it queries things in the DB its getting the MiXeD cAsE version of the email address to query with (and thus isn't finding any matches). ----- Although I'd love to see "$self->authen->username()" return the filtered version of the username, I'd also expect that this would cause grief for other people who've built things up on the premise that "you get back what the user entered, unfiltered". How about a "$self->authen->filtered_username()" method? Thoughts? Comments? Or, am I overlooking a simpler answer entirely? Right now I'm handling this via a "post-login callback", where I query the username, force it to lc(), then set it back into the store. Works, but feels hack-ish. -- Graham TerMarsch Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc. ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
