On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Brandon <brandon.m.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I request a feature from Django?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#requesting-features

It's also worth keeping in mind the release cycle:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-process/#release-cycle

We're currently in Phase 2 for v1.2.

> This one would be simple. I'd like the authenticate method to take an
> extra boolean argument which would determine if it should treat the
> username as case sensitive. Default would be True, since it treats it
> that way already.
>
> I understand that passwords would have to be case sensitive, because
> they are hashed, but usernames should not have to be case sensitive.
...
> Is there a way to do this already? My way seems like it would be
> easier to add the check into authenticate() instead of the following
> workaround.

Yes - write a custom authentication backend:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#writing-an-authentication-backend

Yours
Russ Magee %-)

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