Tickets :: Comment on [#8996] accidental whitespace in username causing problems in session

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Comment	> Theoretically, your fix is incorrect. Per RFC 3501, a username is > allowed to have spaces. I personally can't think of a rational > situation where a username would have leading/trailing whitespace, > but those are the rules. > > However, c-client should be sending the username in a quoted string > and/or a literal. So these logins should be failing in the first > place (the expected behavior) since "user " != "user". So either > PHP/c-client is internally trimming the whitespace on the username in > an imap_open() call, it is sending the username without quoting, or > cyrus is ignoring the trailing whitespace. I would guess the 1st, > but you would have to do IMAP logging on the cyrus side to verify.
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