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Bug 40024 - $wgAuth->getCanonicalName() is evil and should die in a fire
$wgAuth->getCanonicalName() is evil and should die in a fire
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-09-05 21:10 UTC by Ryan Lane
Modified: 2013-02-05 11:49 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan Lane 2012-09-05 21:10:03 UTC 
$wgAuth->getCanonicalName() is meant to allow authentication plugins to munge a user name from the login name to a mediawiki name. Unfortunately, getCanonicalName is also used for a million other things, like page titles, and checking the validity of user names.

Overloading this function for munging names in auth plugins and for checking validity of usernames and page titles causes an incredible number of bugs. We really need some better method of handling this.
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