[BlueOnyx:15878] Re: Bug / Issue with New GUI (5208R) and SSL

[Dan Porter]

As always - thanks!   I am absolutely loving everything about the new GUI.
  Your hard work really shines !

Dan Porter
Twin Wolf Technology Group, LLC


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> >> > When attempting to generate a SSL signing request for a new
> certificate,
> >> > the "Organization" field will not allow any blank space characters.
>  When
> >> > typing the name of the organization, an error appears in red "Please
> fix
> >> > this field".
> >
> > Confirmed. Thanks for reporting this. I'll fix it.
>
> Ok, this is fixed in SVN and YUM. Updates have been published. Sadly, it
> was a bit more complicated than anticipated.
>
> Allowing a space between multiple words was easy. We just don't want a
> leading and trailing space. That blew the regular expression for this to
> 3x the previous size.
>
> Then I looked at it again. The company name, state, organizational unit
> and such might have additional unicode characters in it. With umlauts
> and accents. One example (fictional) company name: "Bärbelweiß &
> Trüffelköter GmbH"
>
> The GUI wouldn't take that as is. Due to the umlauts. Validating with
> \pL instead (or in PREC with \p{L}) would validate all Unicode input as
> valid. Which would even have worked for Japanese. Sadly, we validate
> with jQuery and that only allows a subset to be validated natively and
> macros such as \pL won't work.
>
> So I had to incorporate a bit of a work around so that the SSL input
> also accepts a limited subset of Unicode input. Should be good for now,
> but might need some fine tuning down the road.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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