Feature Proposal: /cgi-bin/view/~jsmith to be redirected to /cgi-bin/view/Main/JaneSmith

Motivation

It's handy to go to a user's topic simply by ~loginname, more specifically http://twiki.company.com/cgi-bin/view/~loginname. This is especially the case if one or more of the following conditions are met.

• login names are different from wikinames and shorter
• UserSubwebs is in effect

Description and Documentation

Description of what this feature should do

It would be nice if it can be implemented purely in a user mapping handler or a plug-in. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

TWiki::new() needs to see ~loginname in PATH_INFO and then it needs to use $session->users->getWikiName($session->{users}->getCanonicalUserID($login)) to find the corresponding wikiname.

Then, for the script handler body (e.g. TWiki::UI::View::view()) to redirect if needed, $session->{tildeLoginName} is to be set to true.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: HideyoImazu - 2012-08-14

Discussion

Sounds good. It does not clash with valid web names.

What happens if the user is not logged in?

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-08-14

It doesn't matter. /cgi-bin/view/~loginname would be just an alias of /cgi-bin/view/Main/FirstLast.

-- HideyoImazu - 2012-08-14

Ah, I misunderstood /~login (now documented as /~loginname) as a literal string , not /~jsmith for /Main/JaneSmith.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-08-14