RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive - (opinion - OT)

2005-10-24 Thread Boyle Owen
-Original Message- From: Nick Kew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is HTTP, the protocol of the Web, that is case-sensitive. Anything that tries to pretend it's not is broken. Exactly. The whole concept of case-sensitivity is wrong-headed to begin with. The case of a letter is an

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread dogbert
Quoting Boyle Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Nick Kew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is HTTP, the protocol of the Web, that is case-sensitive. Anything that tries to pretend it's not is broken. Exactly. The whole concept of case-sensitivity is wrong-headed

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:44 -0700 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: . . . as opposed to general case-insensitivity which is not possible (and, in addition, not advisable, since proxy caches, search engines, etc are all case sensitive). Well, Google is case INsensitive and proud of it. I once complained

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RewriteEngine On RewriteMap lc int:tolower RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R] However, when I try this in apache (2.0.5x), I get the following message returned to me in firefox 1.0.7: redirection limit for this URL exceeded, unable to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Doug McNutt wrote: At 10:44 -0700 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: . . . as opposed to general case-insensitivity which is not possible (and, in addition, not advisable, since proxy caches, search engines, etc are all case sensitive). Well, Google is case INsensitive and proud of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-24 Thread dogbert
Quoting Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RewriteEngine On RewriteMap lc int:tolower RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R] However, when I try this in apache (2.0.5x), I get the following message returned to me in firefox 1.0.7:

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Bill Parker
Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@httpd.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive On 10/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/21/05, Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the goal is to simply make everything in the URL which is received by APACHE lower case, as case sensitivity is a(n) issue on unix/linux/etc. In windows it doesn't matter, since filenames are case insensitive (hope that clears up the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-21 Thread Nick Kew
On Friday 21 October 2005 15:11, Bill Parker wrote: Well, the goal is to simply make everything in the URL which is received by APACHE lower case, as case sensitivity is a(n) issue on unix/linux/etc. In windows it doesn't matter, since filenames are case insensitive (hope that clears up the

[EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread dogbert
Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) would be processed by httpd as: www.foobar.com/junkfood.htm (server side) In reading

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread Marc Perkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) would be processed by httpd as:

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make URL's case insensitive

2005-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for example: www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) would be processed by