[Mediawiki-l] Issue with usernames in internet explorer

[Simon Orr]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is the wrong list for this query but I don't believe
so...

Installed software listed at the bottom.

When creating an account /logging into Mediawiki using firefox,
everything works perfectly. when attempting to create a user or login in
IE, I get an error about an invalid username.

Example Usernames: John.Smith (I've also tried john.smith, johnsmith,
Johnsmith, etc...)

I've pulled apart the SpecialUserLogin.php page and found that the
function authenticateUserData is rejecting the username at the first
test as the username appears to be blank.

    function authenticateUserData() {
        global $wgUser, $wgAuth;
        if ( '' == $this->mName ) {
            return self::NO_NAME;
        }
/*...*/  


I've used Fiddler2 to monitor the data POSTed to the wiki and the
username and password are both being sent correctly.

I've decreased the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize to be 16MB
(Instead of 50) as suggested in a thread on the boards but no joy (and
yes, I restarted apache)

Any suggestions anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated

I've got he following installed:
	OS		Win2k3
	MediaWiki  	1.13.1
	PHP 	5.2.6 (apache2handler)
	MySQL 	5.0.67-community-nt

With 
	Hooks:
		ParserFunctions (Version 1.1.1)
		SyntaxHighlight (Version unknown)

	Special:
		Renameuser (Version r40857)

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