Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Peter J Milanese
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive I've had good luck using mod_speling. But before that I used a trick where I used samba. The trick is to run samba, mount a share, then serve from that share. Samba is case insensitive. BTW - I agree - in fact I think it's i

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Marc Perkel
I've had good luck using mod_speling. But before that I used a trick where I used samba. The trick is to run samba, mount a share, then serve from that share. Samba is case insensitive. BTW - I agree - in fact I think it's insane to have a case sensitive file system. But I'll never convince th

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread dogbert
Quoting Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RewriteEngine On > > RewriteMap lc int:tolower > > RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R] > > > However, when I try this in apache (2.0.5x), I get the following message > > returned to me in firefo

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Doug McNutt wrote: At 10:44 -0700 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: . . . as opposed to general case-insensitivity which is not possible (and, in addition, not advisable, since proxy caches, search engines, etc are all case sensitive). Well, Google is case INsensitive and proud of i

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RewriteEngine On > RewriteMap lc int:tolower > RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R] > However, when I try this in apache (2.0.5x), I get the following message > returned to me in firefox 1.0.7: > > redirection limit for this URL exceeded, unabl

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:44 -0700 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: > . . . as opposed to general case-insensitivity which is >not possible (and, in addition, not advisable, since proxy caches, >search engines, etc are all case sensitive). Well, Google is case INsensitive and proud of it. I once complained

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread dogbert
Quoting Boyle Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick Kew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > It is HTTP, the protocol of the Web, that is case-sensitive. > > Anything that tries to pretend it's not is broken. > > Exactly. > > The whole concept of "case-sensitivity

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive - (opinion - OT)

2005-10-24 Thread Boyle Owen
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Kew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It is HTTP, the protocol of the Web, that is case-sensitive. > Anything that tries to pretend it's not is broken. Exactly. The whole concept of "case-sensitivity" is wrong-headed to begin with. The case of a letter is a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Nick Kew
On Friday 21 October 2005 15:11, Bill Parker wrote: > Well, the goal is to simply make everything in the URL which is received by > APACHE lower case, as case sensitivity is a(n) issue on unix/linux/etc. In > windows it doesn't matter, since filenames are case insensitive (hope that > clears up th

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/21/05, Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the goal is to simply make everything in the URL which is received by > APACHE lower case, as case sensitivity is a(n) issue on unix/linux/etc. In > windows it doesn't matter, since filenames are case insensitive (hope that > clears up th

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Bill Parker
From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive On 10/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > >I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > >I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's > (after > the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: > > www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) > > would be proces

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread Marc Perkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) would be processed by httpd as: www.foobar.com/junkfood.htm

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 20 October 2005 08:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > >I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's > (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for > example: > > www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) > > would be proce

[EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread dogbert
Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) would be processed by httpd as: www.foobar.com/junkfood.htm (server side) In reading th