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

If you think this is troublesome, think about this:  there is a proposal to 
allow characters from national character sets in URLs - accented 
characters, chinese characters, and probably (eventually) all Unicode 
characters - which will make life even more interesting.

At 01:47 PM 06/24/00, 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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Chuck Upsdell
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