It is indeed a brain dead browser or robot that converts URLs to lowercase although there seems to be some SEO theories which seem to advise people to convert all URLs to lowercase - which seems stupid.
I ran into an issue the other day where a Domain registration company couldn't forward to a site I host because the URL contained mixed case - must have had some type of whacko software running there if it only used lowercase. >the resources are registered via the fully qualified name of the class >that acts as scope. if we registered them as fqn.tolowercase() then >there are possibilities of collisions. if the browser chooses to >ignore case sensitivity of a url then it deserves a 404. > >-igor > >On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Chris Colman ><chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com> wrote: >> Would it be possible to wrap the resource loader code in a try/catch and >if it fails retry with a lowercase form of the class name? >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Chris Colman [mailto:chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com] >>>Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:42 PM >>>To: users@wicket.apache.org >>>Subject: RE: Unable to lazily register wicket-event.js - incorrect case? >>> >>>I did some more analysis: >>> >>>One offending User-Agent is 'reported' to be: >>> >>>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR >2.0.50727) >>> >>>But the very first request this agent makes, according to matching IP >>>addresss, is robots.txt so it's probably not really a normal client >browser >>>but a robot/spider. >>> >>>Another User-Agent is 'reported' to be: >>> >>>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR >2.0.50727; >>>MAXTHON 2.0) >>> >>>Not sure if this is actually IE 6 (another robot/spider?) - amazing that >>>someone is still able to surf the net using that browser. >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Igor Vaynberg [mailto:igor.vaynb...@gmail.com] >>>>Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:11 PM >>>>To: users@wicket.apache.org >>>>Subject: Re: Unable to lazily register wicket-event.js - incorrect case? >>>> >>>>i doubt it was wicket, probably some weird browser that transformed >>>>the url into lower case before requesting the resource. >>>> >>>>-igor >>>> >>>>On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Chris Colman >>>><chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com> wrote: >>>>> My logs reveal a rather interesting resource loading error: >>>>> >>>>> ERROR - haredResourceRequestTarget - unable to lazily register shared >>>>> resource >>>>> org.apache.wicket.markup.html.wicketeventreference/wicket-event.js >>>>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: >>>>> org.apache.wicket.markup.html.wicketeventreference >>>>> at >>>>> >org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader >>>>> .java:1387) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The request log reveals the cause: >>>>> >>>>> Here's a request for wicket-event.js that fails (404): >>>>> >>>>> "GET >>>>> /resources/org.apache.wicket.markup.html.wicketeventreference/wicket- >eve >>>>> nt.js HTTP/1.0" 404 952 >>>>> >>>>> Here's a request for wicket-event.js that succeeds (200): >>>>> >>>>> "GET >>>>> /resources/org.apache.wicket.markup.html.WicketEventReference/wicket- >eve >>>>> nt.js HTTP/1.1" 200 2317 >>>>> >>>>> Note the difference: The case is different for the word >>>>> [W|w]icket[E|e]vent[R|r]eference in each case. Tomcat is running on a >>>>> Linux server so obviously case will be an issue. This bug probably >does >>>>> not reveal itself on a Windows server. >>>>> >>>>> Why would wicket make two different types of requests to get the same >>>>> resource? >>>>> >>>>> I'm using only wicket and wicket-extensions, built from sources taken >>>>> from SVN 1.4.x trunk on May 24, 2010. >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >>>>For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >>>For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
