[etoys-dev] Can we get Squeakland Website ready for Squeakfest?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 22.07.2010, at 16:53, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

> At Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:15:17 -0400,
> Timothy Falconer wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps Etoys is doing something with the text
>> field, expanding it somehow . . . "MrSteve" -> "Mr Steve"
> 
>  As far as I know, Etoys does not do such conversion.
> 
>  It sounds that server decided to do the lowercase normalization.
> Such network programs should be strict about their output but
> forgiving for input.  So, the server should just do the conversion for
> any incoming requests.  The client (Etoys in this case) should just
> send the string as the user typed in.

Yes, I'm pretty sure Etoys does not alter the typed-in username in any way. Maybe the server is not case-insensitive everywhere? Like in the DAV module? Etoys constructs the pathname using the typed-in username, maybe that's where the server fails?

- Bert -