From 24114539d53670d370ec46dc6105a55043667be8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <baris@nodebb.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:51:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] closes #4046

---
 src/meta.js           | 1 +
 src/socket.io/user.js | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/meta.js b/src/meta.js
index 746a94a62d..8438f9041b 100644
--- a/src/meta.js
+++ b/src/meta.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ var async = require('async'),
 
 	/* Assorted */
 	Meta.userOrGroupExists = function(slug, callback) {
+		slug = utils.slugify(slug);
 		async.parallel([
 			async.apply(user.existsBySlug, slug),
 			async.apply(groups.existsBySlug, slug)
diff --git a/src/socket.io/user.js b/src/socket.io/user.js
index 3a19d62d63..ca7245c21c 100644
--- a/src/socket.io/user.js
+++ b/src/socket.io/user.js
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ require('./user/picture')(SocketUser);
 
 SocketUser.exists = function(socket, data, callback) {
 	if (data && data.username) {
-		meta.userOrGroupExists(utils.slugify(data.username), callback);
+		meta.userOrGroupExists(data.username, callback);
 	}
 };