On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: > >%_Dave Sherman wrote: > > If you wanted to do that, you would be asking Apache to ignore the basic > > *nix filesystem rules, which I don't think is possible. The server would > > have to calculate every possible upper/lower case combination for each > > directory and file a user might request, and that would cause a > > (probably big) performance hit! > > Just for the sake of completeness: Or, it could do what Windows does, > basically convert the entire name to lower (or upper) case, i.e., it > makes no distinction between, for example, TeSt and test. I think there > may be places where this is the appropriate user friendly behavior. > > > And if there are two files with the same > > name (except for upper/lower case), then what would Apache do? > > If TeSt and test are indeed different files, Apache has a problem, if > TeSt, test, TEST, etc. all refer to a file named test, Apache could > handle it. Of course, we would have fewer file names available.
If you take a look at the apache mod_speling (not a typo!) module, you can configure your server to do that (so I have heard) http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_speling.html -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 register at http://counter.li.org
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