2009/4/6 Mark - obsd list <m...@nerdish.us>: > I sure hope this is just a troll. He has written "OpenBSD" in just about > every way that won't work and is ignoring everyone telling him repeatedly > that he has to capitalize BSD.
I'm actually a little bit sympathetic towards people not copping on to the fact that capitalization matters with the URL's path here. Why, you ask? <OT-rant> Because URL design is just not very self-consistent: - The host name part is case-insensitive. - The path and/or rest of a URL is frequently case-sensitive. Ouch! - The host name notation is least-significant-part first. - The path notation is most-significant-part first. Argh! Throw in a ? and & and & and almost everything goes -- and the URL has gotten too long for many users to remember and reliably retype. FAIL! Oh, and the #anchors are probably case-sensitive again. *sadtrombone* Ironically, one of the few ways to sort of "fix" this is to be very rich and use Windows. No, really. You'd burn a huge pile of cash and apply for your own tld ( and I do mean *T*ld, cf. http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/26/1814205.shtml ), and then you'd use a web server with a case-insensitive file system. AFAIK the most common one of those is IIS (and if that doesn't scare you...) The result: http://oneworddomainname/case/insensitive/path/ Ha-ha-only-serious. ;-/ </OT-rant> regards, --ropers PS: Yes, yes, I know, there's Apache's mod_speling.c; don't tell me. And yes, contrary to what is says in this FAQ [ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ-H.html#rewrite-nocase ], Unix *can* deal with case-insensitive file systems, and you probably *could* mount one of those on /var/www, but anyway, the first step is admitting that you have a problem. "Hi, I'm ropers, and I'm a webmaster." PPS: On a less OT note: Just out of curiosity and for shits and giggles: Can anyone suggest a decent and fast case-insensitive file system for such and/or similar uses? Is there a way to make FFS partitions case-insensitive? I'm not talking about partitions that the OS would be installed on; I'm just asking about partitions that could be mounted at /var/www or wherever.
