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Needs something that resolves case-sensitivity in usernames. For example, because I've chosen "case_sensitive" as my user name, no one else may choose "Case_Se
by case_sensitive 12y ago
Needs something that resolves case-sensitivity in usernames.
For example, because I've chosen "case_sensitive" as my user name, no one else may choose "Case_Sensitive" or "CaSe_SeNsItIvE" et c. Meanwhile, a request for "Case_sensitive" will fail.
http://social.gnod.com/hn:case_sensitive http://social.gnod.com/hn:case_sensitive!
http://social.gnod.com/hn:Case_sensitive http://social.gnod.com/hn:Case_sensitive!
It would be possible to fix this by crawling and scraping an enumeration of all valid user names into a lookup table, and then matching a query tranformed to all uppercase (or all lowercase) letters against the similarly transformed lookup table which retains the valid case sensitive version, then showing the results with the corrected name.
- Achshar 12y agoHN itself has case sensitive usernames for login and urls. I have always found that strange.