case sensitivity

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Solicitors Mortgages, Jun 1, 2005.

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    any info on whether case sensitivity is an issue across browser types?

    i have a Contactform.htm

    and keep seeing errors on log for contactform.htm

    should this be happening?
     
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  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Check the user agent and referrer in the logs. You should be able to see what type of browser they are using as well as where they clicked through from (if anywhere).
     
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  3. mnemtsas

    mnemtsas Super Dud

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    I think you'll find case sensitivity is dependent on server type rather than brower......of course I could be wrong, it's happened before and will happen again (and that's just in the last 5 minutes :p )
     
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    I have found unix servers (apache) is but windows (iss) is not.
     
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    noppid gunnin' for the quota

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    Upper case letters in a path or URL are voodoo IMO.

    I can only say that because I started on unix systems and it's always mattered for some reason.
     
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  6. J.D.

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    URLs are case-sensitive by the book (RFC 2616) and should always be treated this way. Some OS'es, like Windows or Mac OS X map URLs to case-insensitive file systems and this makes many people think that they are not, which is wrong. This does not include domain names, though, which are always case insensitive.

    You can either change your HTML to make sure all references match or use a rewrite filter to map all forms of contact form to the actual name of the file. Personally, I would fix HTML.

    J.D.
     
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