John Garrould wrote:
All,
We are migrating to the Apache FTP Server from an IBM mainframe FTP
server. The existing server is not case sensitive so customers can CD
to a directory called "Orders" using CD ORDERS, CD orders and any
combination in between. There are thousands of customers involved and
we can't ask them all to change their software to use upper or lower
case. Is there a quick, simple, safe way of making directory names
not case sensitive on the server?
Yeah, this should be pretty straight-forward to make an configurable
option. Of course, it will be crucial that the underlaying file system
doesn't differentiate between files based on the casing. So, this change
wouldn't work all that great on Unix/Linux file systems, but it should
work just fine on Windows.
We currently have no unit tests for the file system code so I'm a bit
reluctant to make the change before I've fixed that. Give me a day or
two and I might have something working.
Will you be running the FTP server on the mainframe?
/niklas
