Re: Case sensitive url's are dumb, aren't they?

My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that the primary domain part is 
not case sensitive, but everything after the slash may be depending on the 
server.

If it can be eliminated or not depends on what he is using for a server. 
Unix/Linux servers are not case sensitive (or so I am told) while WinNT 
servers are.



At 01:47 PM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote:

>Sorry if this is off topic as to html itself but I thought, 'cause it was the
>media in which it works, that it would be close enough?
>
>I have a new isp that is set up so a url has to be typed *exactly* as it is in
>his server.  I mean, it you type Index instead of index, you won't get the 
>page.
>I see this with directories, gifs, etc.   Everything has to match the calling
>case...    Isn't that a bit dumb?   I'm probably not seeing the whole picture
>here but the isp guy says everything should be done in lower case...  Sure
>*would* solve everything if there *wasn't* another case to worry about, 
>but net
>fusion, etc. keeps throwing in that big stuff...
>
>Can someone shed some light on this so I don't blame my isp guy unfairly.  Why
>is there case sensitivity and should it/can it be eliminated?
>
>Floyd Baker
>
>
>--

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