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Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by Steve R Jones, 2008/04/07.

  1. 2008/04/07
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff Thread Starter

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    I actually figured out the problem but am trying to figure out if I'm getting old or my IT consultant is:eek:

    Short version is that I accidently figured out that the logon is Case Sensitive.

    Example: sjones@[B]C[/B]ompany[B]N[/B]ame[B]H[/B]ere.com

    The actual address is a few characters longer But has three names like this example. The sign on screen no likeee the capital letters. It only took three weeks to luck upon the solution.

    Any thoughts or comments?
     
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    PeteC

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    Methinks you're getting old Steve and the grey matter is failing :D

    Think back - all addresses used to be in lower case - and clearly some still need to be. My webmail logon is exclusively lower case.

    Another example today while registering a debit card for internet security - my name had to be in lower case.
     
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    TonyT

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    All Web logon forms are processed by server scripts or server applications. Most all are case sensitive, as are the password fields. These scripts usually contain code that validates the form input, such as:
    ifempty(username) || (password) {
    # show an error message to user
    }
    if $username && password != exact username & password stored in database {
    # send user back to login form
    }
    else {
    # grant access to user
    }
     
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    ReggieB

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    JavaScript (the scripting language used on many client side validations systems) is case sensitive. However, like most case sensitive languages I've come across, it also contains a String method which can be used to force text to become lower case ( "toLowerCase "). This makes it easy to create a case insensitive validation if (as in the case of e-mail addresses) the item being checked can be in any case.
    Code:
    var test_string =  "Test ";
a = test_string.match( "test ");
b = test_string.toLowerCase.match( "test ");
    a would return nil because "Test" is not an exact match of "test ".
    b would successfully return the test pattern because "Test" was converted to "test" before it was compared.

    Therefore, I'd say you are suffering from poorly designed interface. It's behaving the way you describe, because the developers of that software have made it so it works that way.
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff Thread Starter

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    Great thanks...Lower Case is good:cool:

    I've only seen a few softwares/websites where the UserName is case sensitive. Thus this thread...

    My on line banking for example isn't....Of the eight vBulletin sites I post on, only one of them is...
     
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    TonyT

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    Rule of thumb is Usernames not case sensitive, passwords always case sensitive. However, that rule only really applies to Usernames that are email addresses. Many sites use email addresses as the username, thus case sensitive should not apply. But for example, if a username = TonyT then the login form should not accept tOnYt.
     
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