On 02/16/2011 02:57 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
I have yet to write to the mailing lists about it, but likely there will be a rename/expansion based on a recommendation by Johan. Basically, we need two datatypes: Ascii and CIAscii. I'm not sure if that addresses your questions though.
Mostly it was a semantic niggle that bytestrings don't have a notion of case, so CI- is meaningless. CIAscii at least makes some sense. Does Text support the notion of case-insensitive types?
I think there's a big overlap between third-party authentication and access to protected resources. Check our the Facebook module: in addition to just "login" support, it allows access to the graph API using the secure token Facebook gives back. I don't think having extra functionality beyond pure authentication should be a reason to exclude hoauth from authenticate.
OK. J