[ic] logged in case insensitivity issue - current Standard

[Peter]

On 12/12/09 17:17, Paul Jordan wrote:
> It appears that as standard ships, a customer login is not case
> sensitive. However, in order to access their order history (detail
> page), there is a username comparison to validate the user, it's on
> query/order_detail.html. The comparison IS case sensitive, so for
> example, if someone logs in as LAdams, instead of ladams, or something
> more likely - to issue a return as u01234, instead of U01234, they'll be
> met with an user violation error when wanting to see the detail of their
> past orders.

This is actually coming from the DB itself.  MySQL comparisons are
case-insensitive whereas PostgreSQL are case-sensistive, so you will
find that if you are running PostgreSQL the login will actually be case
sensistive.  I think that we should fix the issue to be consistent
across dbs and also fix the behavior to be consistent in IC itself.  So
we need to answer the following questions:

1.  To make the behavior consistent across DBs should we adopt the MySQL
case-insensitive behavior or the PostgreSQL case-sensitive behavior?

2.  Should we fix this in the record_exists() db method or elsewhere?
What about other db functions?

3.  Alternatively we can fetch the username with correct case from the
DB during login and replace the passed username with that.

Peter