Thanks! That's what I need. Jay
On 7/13/06, Thorsten Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I had the same problem. Have a look at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-555 for a solution. Regards, Thorsten (Jay) Jun Yan wrote: > Hi, > > I found that JetSpeed does not support UTF-8 encoded usernames. If you > login > as an admin and create a user with name in East Asian language, or with > other non-regular letters, like "รค" (alt+132), you can do it. But if you > type that new name in the login page, you would get a "Wrong user name" > error message, with the name screwed on UI. > > The name can be kept if you add > request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); > at the beginning of org.apache.jetspeed.login.LoginProxyServlet.goGet. > But > you still won't be able to login, because this piece of code. > > Callback[] callbacks = new Callback[] { new > NameCallback("Username: "), new PasswordCallback("Password: ", false) }; > callbackHandler.handle(callbacks); > username = ((NameCallback) callbacks[0]).getName(); > > I assume that's how people get the user name. If the username typed in > was > UTF-8 encoded, here the username is wrong already. > > The logic which causes this problem, which seems to me, is the > callbackHandler, which is an instance of > javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.SecureCallbackHandler > > I guess that's something out of our control. > > I heard a workaround to get the bytes from the screwed username above, > and > use those bytes to reconstruct a string UTF-8 encoded. But I am afraid > that > in the future if this issue is fixed by javax..., I would double > encode it. > > Anybody has any ideas/suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Jay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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