On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<4e47db26$0$30002$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Er, most URLs are case insensitive, at least the most common ones, including
HTTP and HTTPS. So I don't quite see why you think this was a Whoops.
URLs are most certainly not case insensitive. Parts of them may be
(i.e. the scheme and host parts), but not the stuff after the hostname.
The thing that confuses people is that not only is the part up to and
through the domain name is case-insensitive, but that simple pages on
Windows become case-insensitive for the remainder simply because Windows
is such.
And the same page hosted on Linux would be case sensitive, per
specification.
The thing I find annoying is a host that decides that if a URL is close
to an existing URL, it'll fix one or two "typos." To me, it's either
right, or it's not. Don't change www.mydomain.com/page105.html
to www/mydomain.com/page102.html and pretend it's "close enough."
DaveA
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