Re: Case sensitive url's are dumb, aren't they?
by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
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Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:40:06 -0400 |
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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?
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>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...
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>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?
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>Floyd Baker
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Chuck Upsdell
Email: cupsdell(at)istar.ca or cupsdell(at)torfree.net
Website: http://home.istar.ca/~cupsdell/
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