[Everydevel-bugs] [ everydevel-Bugs-508388 ] Can't have usernames ending in a pipe

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Bugs item #508388, was opened at 2002-01-25 02:19
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Jay Bonci (jaybonci)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't have usernames ending in a pipe

Initial Comment:
We throw a server error when creating usernames that 
end in a pipe character.  Try creating asdasd| as a 
username. asdasd|asd works, but the former does not.
Dumb, I know, but it's possible someone might want a 
username with like |joe|.  Personally, I think 
disallowing the pipe character is a good bet, seeing 
as it would break all pipe-linking.
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The error I get is: 
<pre>
Create a new user
Can't coerce array into hash 
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Everything/HTML
.pm line 641. 
</pre>
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This was tested on the ecore current I have (non-CVS).


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>Comment By: chromatic (chromatic)
Date: 2002-01-27 21:22

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=2274

I'm all for this.  We could disallow square brackets too, 
for obvious linking reasons.

There are checks on Everything2 and on Perl Monks to try to 
weed out duplicate usernames.  Slash has something similar.  
There's room to perform similar things in the Engine.

Combined with the bug about invalid dbtable names, could we 
add a node method like "validateTitle()" to all nodetypes 
where this would be useful?  It should be called from 
"insert()", obviously.


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