Removing space from passwords and user login

I just had a user that had problems logging in.
her login displayed everything correct, except that her login
(email-address) had a space first. thus she could not login.

there is a problem in many e-mail clients that it’s pretty hard to cut
and paste an e-mail address.

e.g. mymail@mycom.com when you click it, it opens a new window for
message composing. and if you try to click and drag from outside the
word, it’s very easy that some extra spaces are included.

ive seen this problem before at other webservices, and we’ve always
solved this by removing spaces in the beginning and end of
login/password (or other important forms). e.g. if you doubleclick on a
word in internet explorer, you always get an extra space included.

so please make it easier for my user (and other users) by removing
spaces from starts or ending of login and passwords.

there is a problem in many e-mail clients that it’s pretty hard to cut
and paste an e-mail address.

e.g. mymail@mycom.com when you click it, it opens a new window for
message composing. and if you try to click and drag from outside the
word, it’s very easy that some extra spaces are included.

ive seen this problem before at other webservices, and we’ve always
solved this by removing spaces in the beginning and end of
login/password (or other important forms). e.g. if you doubleclick on a
word in internet explorer, you always get an extra space included.

so please make it easier for my user (and other users) by removing
spaces from starts or ending of login and passwords.

This sounds like a job for rt-bugs@bestpractical.com. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

  If you can read this... thank a system administrator.  Or two.  --me

rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com wrote:

e.g. if
you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
get an extra space included.

This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
space is at the end, not the beginning.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

-bws

Brian W. Spolarich wrote:

rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com wrote:

e.g. if
you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
get an extra space included.

This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
space is at the end, not the beginning.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

I suspect it’s a windowism, as it doesn’t happen in firefox on my linux
system.

It also does it notepad on Windows, and wordpad. But it doesn’t do it on
words that have a comma or period after them.

OK, enough testing. I think it’s just something about Windows.

Russ

Brian W. Spolarich wrote:

rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com wrote:

e.g. if
you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
get an extra space included.

This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
space is at the end, not the beginning.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

I suspect it’s a windowism, as it doesn’t happen in firefox on my linux
system.

It also does it notepad on Windows, and wordpad. But it doesn’t do it on
words that have a comma or period after them.

OK, enough testing. I think it’s just something about Windows.

It’s very specifically IE, so far as I can tell. It is a bit
difficult to copy text which is a link, but IE purposefully adjusts
what it thinks you’re trying to select, making it ompletely impossible
to select certain things, no matter which way you drag.

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

  If you can read this... thank a system administrator.  Or two.  --me

Brian W. Spolarich wrote:

you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
get an extra space included.

This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
space is at the end, not the beginning.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

Perhaps this user pref is relevant:

layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word

which sounds to me like firefox being bug-compatible with windows. :slight_smile:

Brian W. Spolarich wrote:

you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
get an extra space included.

This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
space is at the end, not the beginning.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

Perhaps this user pref is relevant:

layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word

which sounds to me like firefox being bug-compatible with windows. :slight_smile:

Part, but not all: IE will select entire words, in some
circumstances, even if you’re consciously trying only to select
character strings
; there may be a knob to turn off what I’m sure they
call “SmartSelect”, but I haven’t found it.

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

  If you can read this... thank a system administrator.  Or two.  --me