getAuthenticationToken() in afcs.php

[Former Community Member]

Hi guys,

what is the reason to utf8_encode the name in the last version?

$token = "x:{utf8_encode($name)}::{$this->account}:{$id}:{$this->room}:{$role}";

utf8_encode($name)

- There is no need to do this if the file itself is UTF-8 encoded.

- Does only function for ISO encoded files.

- It produces errors with lets say german umlauts ö,ä,ü in usernames.

Please remove it or suggest me a workaround.

Thanks in advice.

George.

[Raff_]

User names on the server-side are expected/processed as utf-8 encoded and another developer complained that non-utf-8 encoded names where giving him an error.

So, what's the right solutions ? Maybe I should just check if I like the encoding and throw an error otherwise.

[kemmott]

This was actually an issue for me to - I was actually having "{utf8_encode(whatevername)}" appear in my App as the username passed through the token. I had to hack afcs.php to something like:

$displayname = utf8_encode($name);

$token = "x:{$displayname}::{$this->account}:{$id}:{$this->room}:{$role}";

-Kevan