Modify Username on Input?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Nov 7 14:51:08 EST 2016


> We've done JS and server side. I don't think it matters for Shibboleth, but we
> also had issues in the past where the username coming out of CAS was cased
> to how the user typed it.

There's a whole subsystem in the IdP devoted to the issue.

There's no reason to do any of this client-side.

> Unfortunately, this doesn't handle leading or trailing whitespace. Going to
> have to figure out how and where to take care of that. Autocomplete from
> keyboards can end up putting that in, and it is frustrating when that isn't
> handled.

All handled as desired either before login, after, or both.

-- Scott



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