Re: Please define "canonicalize" in httpd.h

2004-08-02 Thread Stas Bekman
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 02:35 PM 8/1/2004, Stas Bekman wrote: John Rowe wrote: Please define "canonicalize" In the context of case-insensitive file systems, it's often the case that a file is given the canonical name that it was created with ("MyFile") with all other capitalisations ("myfil

Re: Please define "canonicalize" in httpd.h

2004-08-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 02:35 PM 8/1/2004, Stas Bekman wrote: >John Rowe wrote: >>>Please define "canonicalize" >> >>In the context of case-insensitive file systems, it's often the case >>that a file is given the canonical name that it was created with >>("MyFile") with all other capitalisations ("myfile", "myfilE") b

Re: Please define "canonicalize" in httpd.h

2004-08-01 Thread Stas Bekman
John Rowe wrote: Please define "canonicalize" If the same thing can be referred to by a number of different names and the convention is that one is the "one true", or canonical, name and the others are mere aliases then canonicalisation (or canonicalization for a non-Brit) is the process of trans

Re: Please define "canonicalize" in httpd.h

2004-07-26 Thread John Rowe
> Please define "canonicalize" If the same thing can be referred to by a number of different names and the convention is that one is the "one true", or canonical, name and the others are mere aliases then canonicalisation (or canonicalization for a non-Brit) is the process of translating a name i

Please define "canonicalize" in httpd.h

2004-07-23 Thread Stas Bekman
from httpd.h: struct request_rec { ... /* XXX: What does this mean? Please define "canonicalize" -aaron */ /** The true filename, we canonicalize r->filename if these don't match */ char *canonical_filename; I'm asking the same question. It looks like it's only different from 'filen