Bug#671457: DDPO: email address affected by case sensitivity
* Vincent Cheng <Vincentc1208@gmail.com>, 2012-05-04, 01:43:
When querying DDPO for a list of packages by maintainer, DDPO shows an
entirely different page, depending on whether or not my email is
capitalized. For example:
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Vincentc1208@gmail.com
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=vincentc1208@gmail.com
The local-part of e-mail addresses _is_ case-sensitive. If it appears it
is not (as in your case), it's only because of the way addresses are
interpreted on this specific host.
The two things we can do fix this “bug” is:
1) Hardwire knowledge about how local-parts are interpreted on some
popular hosts (e.g. gmail.com treats them case-insensitively and ignores
"." characters) into our scripts.
2) Ignore Internet standards and compare all e-mail addresses in a
case-insensitive manner.
Neither of these solutions look appealing to me.
Reference:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11
--
Jakub Wilk
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