Feature Request: case-insensitive pad names

[fwolfst]

It would be great if a setting would allow the use of case-insensitive pad names (overview -> oVErvieW). Having etherpad deployed in a German environment where nouns are written capitalized, this lead to some confusion of users (some capitalize the pad name, others dont).

Currently, i work around that with some nasty nginx-rule (because not all request should be lowercased, some javascript assets use capital letters).

I am not a JavaScript-person and do not know the EP codebase but would assume that this is a rather low-hanging fruit (but then I don't know if the code is structured such that plugins etc just use the API which would respect the lowercase-setting).

Probably related: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2557

[JohnMcLear]

Etherpad already does

http://video.etherpad.com/p/blah https://video.etherpad.com/p/blaH

You just need to use MySQL or some sort of database that supports case sensitive database. :)

https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/How-to-use-Etherpad-Lite-with-MySQL

[fwolfst]

Previous comment pointed out: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/79406051fa6610690f7c5ae1d6a0c79dc37f8a78/src/node/db/PadManager.js#L78 as a place to look at. You mean I would need case insensitive database, right? I have seen that actually some people did use a mysql-feature to do that.

My wish would be that I can tell etherpad that case does not matter.

http://video.etherpad.com/p/blah https://video.etherpad.com/p/blaH

Exactly. Thats my problem!

[JohnMcLear]

Yes, make your database key case insensitive.

Or just add .toLower() on a pad Id anywhere in hooks/express/padurlsanitize.js.

I'm not sure I'm gonna write code/test coverage etc. for it tho! I can re-open and if enough people want it I will do it.

That's defo a weird feature request! Users are weird 💃

[fwolfst]

Yes users are weird :)

otoh its not such a weird expectancy that URLs are handled case-insensitive ... like hTTPs://EtHeRPAd.oRG should work fine. Yep, I know why, but tell this an ordinary user. Also, the etherpad blog does not care about capitalization ( https://blog.etherpad.org/2020/03/17/Video-CHAT-with-etHErpAd/). I don't want to argue, but its not uncommon that URLs are treated as-if case-insentitive (same for email-adresses). Did somebody ever tell you the case of a letter when telling you a domain or an URL?

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:21 PM John McLear [email protected] wrote:

Yes, make your database key case insensitive.

Or just add .toLower() on a pad Id anywhere in hooks/express/padurlsanitize.js.

I'm not sure I'm gonna write code/test coverage etc. for it tho! I can re-open and if enough people want it I will do it.

That's defo a weird feature request! Users are weird 💃

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[DanielHabenicht]

I would greatly support this being implemented. For me there is no reason to allow case sensitive rooms: What's the benefit? On the Con Side users are confused and it may not work with other systems that are case insensitive (e.g. Jitsi)

[DanielHabenicht]

Also as of today, there is no way to make it case-insentive anymore. ueberDB forces binary encoding which is case sensitive: https://github.com/ether/ueberDB/blob/7bef202597018bb2966f9f1fd00931760eb6b979/databases/mysql_db.js#L58-L62

I can add a Pull Request for adding a settings to make it case insensitive, if thats alright? @JohnMcLear

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[DanielHabenicht]

I have a pr ready so we can get it fixed!