While I have never heard of it being "frequent practice" I will accept that as a given. I also don't mind it at all, so I don't see the need to override AuthenticationForm. It is just unfortunate that this is an edge case that can be screwed up due to a user's OS
On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 2:36:49 PM UTC-5, is_null wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, C. Kirby <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I just ran into an issue where a user was copy/pasting username and > password > > from a text file into the login screen. For some reason the c/p process > was > > adding a trailing space to their credentials and they were failing > login. > > > > Is there a reason to not scrub leading and trailing spaces from logon > > credentials > > in django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm.clean? I guess that > leading > > and trailing spaces would also have to be scrubbed when creating users > as > > well > > > It's a frequent practice to use special characters including spaces as > prefix/suffix for passwords. > > If you don't like it, you can override AuthenticationForm. > > -- > http://yourlabs.org > Customer is king - Le client est roi - El cliente es rey. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
