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re: Trouble keeping uppercase letters in homepage address
Sunday, August 14, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
The domain name will always be case-insensitive because
DNS is. Under Unix/Linux, the remainer of the URL will
be case-SENSITIVE because filenames in Unix/Linux are
case-SENSITIVE. Under Windows, filenames are NOT
case-sensitive, which is fine, that's how Windows does
it. But Windows suffers from the annoying Microsoft
tendency to assume EVERYBODY else does it the same
way they do, which often creates annoyances for those
of us who work with multiple platforms. It goes much
farther than just the homepage bookmark issue.
For instance, when moving files between Windows
and Linux (via ftp, or Samba, or NFS), often a filename
like Long_Mixed_Case_Name.dat or LongMixedCaseName.txt
will end up getting smashed into Long_mixed_case_name.dat
or Longmixcasename.txt when it gets back to Linux
after passing through a Windows box, which is the same
to Microsoft but NOT the same to Linux.
Big fun. Not too bad when it's just a few files, but when
hundreds of filenames get munged like this, it can really
get annoying.
And the web server CANNOT safely mung paths in URLs
because there may well exist two files whose names
differ only in capitalization (not the smartest way to
name files, but the OS allows it, so the web server must
also) on any Unix-like platform. Sometimes this sort
of thing is even done intentionally, for instance I have
seen cases where a binary program is named all lowercase
and then a shell wrapper which calls it in the appropriate
manner is named with initial uppercase, so the user has
to be sure to type the MixedCase version of the name
to get the right behavior. Not how I would choose to do
it, but all this was the reality in the Unix world before there
was such a thing as Apache, so Apache has no choice but
be case-SENSITIVE due to this history.
On Sunday, August 14, 2005 at 6:46 pm, Falcon wrote:
>Try any page. http://chosenones.dyndns.org/redir/safemodE.php.
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/Winxp/1124066297.
> The domain name is always case-indensitive. The path and query may or may not
>be, but I don't know of a website that isn't.
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