> From: André Warnier [mailto:[email protected]]
> Subject: Re: [OT] servlet use. TC6, FC10
>
> I was just checking that page indicated above, and happened
> to read the "caseSensitive" attribute definition.
> Doesn't that explanation strike anyone as weird ?
Only if you're not aware that both Java and URLs are case-sensitive.
> Or am I just not getting the double negatives somewhere ?
Nope, you're not :-)
> I would expect a "caseSensitive" attribute to have a default value
> "false" under Windows for example.
Because the Windows file system is not case sensitive, it would be easy to
accidentally expose mandated hidden resources via such URLs as:
http://host/myApp/wEb-Inf/dont-look-here.jsp
if case sensitivity were disabled in Tomcat.
- Chuck
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