From 9094d0742fac19bce7a09c33d5215d61488a184c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Kocharin <alex@kocharin.ru>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 03:09:55 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] better error message for incorrect package names

---
 lib/middleware.js | 5 ++---
 lib/utils.js      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/middleware.js b/lib/middleware.js
index 1d734344e..99e3e8382 100644
--- a/lib/middleware.js
+++ b/lib/middleware.js
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ var crypto = require('crypto')
   , Logger = require('./logger')
 
 module.exports.validate_name = function validate_name(req, res, next, value, name) {
-	if (utils.validate_name(req.params.package)) {
-		req.params.package = String(req.params.package)
+	if (utils.validate_name(value)) {
 		next()
 	} else {
 		next(new UError({
 			status: 403,
-			msg: 'invalid package name',
+			msg: 'invalid ' + name,
 		}))
 	}
 }
diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index ba6c67e57..271343b1a 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ var assert = require('assert')
 
 // from normalize-package-data/lib/fixer.js
 module.exports.validate_name = function(name) {
+	if (typeof(name) !== 'string') return false
 	name = name.toLowerCase()
 	if (
 		name.charAt(0) === "." || // ".bin", etc.