From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 12:23:37 EDT
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:43, Alan Horkan wrote:
> i was just typing an URL for the mailing list archives and was struck
> again by possibly the most annoying and broken thing about Unix based
> webservers, case sensistive links.
That's the most annoying and broken thing about dos based web server,
case insensitivity. Why should a and A be the same character? That's
stupid.
That's the behaviour it should be, or were you taught in school that
your name is written alan instead of Alan ? :)
> the url contained uppercase letters and i typed some of them in lowercase
> and it failed
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/
> I typed
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/may/
> Could someone please adjust Apache so this does not happen, and perhaps
> also consider installing mod_spel
That's wrong behaviour for an webserver.
> I'll try and remember to file a bug report later as a reminder and get
> in touch with Hypermail as well if necessary.
Please do not clutter bugzilla with useless bugs. This is a broken
behaviour used on dos based systems that should not be supported.
> Also as a POW someone might consider customising the 404 (and 4__)
> messages (i might do it myself next week when i am less busy).
This is a very good suggestion!
Instead of using a mod_spell, maybe 404 (not found) should provide a
google form for a search restricted to abisource.com.
Cheers,
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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