Swedish competitor becomes Norwegian when he registers for a competition.

[Vidar Norstein Klungre]

Hello WCA Software team!

Peter Andersson's email if needed:

peteran...@online.no

I have a competitor (Peter Andersson) living in Norway who has a problem with his nationality: He is registered as a Swedish competitor in WCA (since he is actually Swedish, but lives in Norway), but almost every time he registers for a competition, he is listed with nationality equal to "Norway". He has experienced this problem for the two latest competitions, and a bunch of others as well. He also tells me that for one competition in Sweden, he did not experience the problem, as far as he can remember.

Neither of us understand why it happens. Could it be like this because he lives in Norway? Does the registration script gather the location of the device instead of the nationality of the competitor?

WCA profile: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2013ANDE01

Competition he recently registered to: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=UiOOpen2016

WCA db export:

+------------+-------+-----------------+-----------+--------+

| id         | subid | name            | countryId | gender |

+------------+-------+-----------------+-----------+--------+

| 2013ANDE01 |     1 | Peter Andersson | Sweden    | m      |

+------------+-------+-----------------+-----------+--------+

Regards Vidar Klungre, Norway

[Oleg Gritsenko]

When I tried to register at your competition and loaded Peter's profile, citizenship was automatically populated with "Sweden". Could it be that Peter manually (accidentally) changes it to "Norway" during registration? Could it be that the organizer changes it?

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Best regards,
Oleg Gritsenko

[Luis J. Iáñez]

The form is populated with the known details from the competitor. This is a fact. If this guy is experiencing this behaviour, for sure it's his browser auto-complete feature who is changing the country. I'd recommend checking this, because I'm positively sure this is his case.

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[Vidar Norstein Klungre]

I did some tests myself, and you are right Luis: When I type the start of my email, the browser suggests it and when I do so, it also modifies the nationality to the country of my address. 

I will ask Peter to test this himself, and reply to you if it does not work, but I am also fairly confident that the autocompletion/suggestions from the browser is the problem.

Thanks, Vidar 

[Lars Petrus]

Oh, interesting.

I can think of a few ways to fix this.

1. Browser autocomplete works on form field names. Don't name it 'country' and it will probably be immune.

2. You can set autocomplete="off" on both forms and individual fields.

3. Maybe the server should reject information that contradicts the DB information, whether entered manually or autocompleted.

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[Jeremy Fleischman]

Good debugging Luis and Lars! I never would have thought of that.

I actually won't be making any changes here though, as I recently ported the competition registration from PHP to Rails. The new code requires you to register with a WCA account, which will avoid this problem, as there won't even be a country field anymore.

I'll be pushing these changes live tonight California time.

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