> -----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 essential part of its semantics and cannot be dispensed with without losing information. To give an example, the other night, I was in a restaurant and one of the items on the menu was "Filets de perche d'Orange". In a case-insensitive world, you might expect your fish to come with orange sauce. But there was important information in the capital "O" in "Orange"... As it turns out the restaurant was called the "Hotel D'Orange" and so the menu was telling us that the dish was done in the special style of that hotel (garlic butter, actually). So the case of a single letter changed completely the semantics of the phrase and the taste of the fish. Filenames and URLs are meant for human consumption and so reflect the underlying semantics of human language (otherwise we'd just use inodes and IP addresses). So if case is important in our written language it must be important on a computer too. Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > -- > Nick Kew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Diese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. Sie hat keinen Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. Geschäftstätigkeit der SWX Gruppe. This e-mail is of a private and personal nature. It is not related to the exchange or business activities of the SWX Group. Le présent e-mail est un message privé et personnel, sans rapport avec l'activité boursière du Groupe SWX. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
