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

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Comment	> We're seeing a problem if our users logging to IMP and accidentally > add whitespace in their username. Our Horde is configured to let IMP > handle authentication, and IMP is set to authenticate against Cyrus > IMAP. > > The authentication against the Cyrus IMAP server works just fine, but > any white space is added to the session information and ends up > looking like this: > > testmail @acd.ccac.edu [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Session Timestamp: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:12:14 -0400 > Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) > Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) > Realm: [None] > Remote Host: xyz.ccac.edu [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] > > This causes a few problems, the biggest of which is that the user > cannot send email (see attached image). The username also doesn't > line up properly with the preferences stored in the MySQL database. > > I notice that if I go into redirect.php and change this: > > IMP_Session::createSession($imapuser, $pass, $sessArray['server'], > $sessArray) > > to this: > > IMP_Session::createSession(trim($imapuser), $pass, > $sessArray['server'], $sessArray) > > The problem seems to disappear. But that probably isn't the recommended fix.
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