From: Jesse Weinstein (jessw@netwood.net)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 18:35:29 EDT
To all you Abiwordites,
On 2 Jun 2002, at 21:52, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> URIs are *wholly* case sensitive. But URLs where only the case of
> domain names differ are equivalent. Most browsers therefore
Ah! Thank you. I have been confused by this for a while.
> automatically lowercase domain names, so that link colouring (visited
> URIs are shown in a different colour), cache, history, cookies &c.
> will work.
It appears that Explorer 5 does not lowercase URLs. Microsoft.
> Are there any Web servers that's case-insensitive. That's a
> *really* bad idea, since link colouring, cache, &c. (see above)
> will *not* work when a person visits the page using different URIs
> which only differ in case. It can also cause your pages becoming
> excluded from search engines because of 'spamming' (different URIs
> having the same content are often used to trick search engines into
> giving a page a higher ranking, and most search engines exclude pages
> using these sorts of tactics).
Hmm, how would you check if a server was case-insensitive(in the
way you describe)?
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Thanks for your time,
Jesse W
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