On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: > If you are really serious about simplying setup and making it bulletproof > you should push back at your application developers and challenge why they > need the hostname to be lower cased. The code that reads the XML should to > it's own .ToLower() if it's that important to them.
I am one of the application developers... /me goes off to push back on myself. =) Seriously though, we store the x.509 certificate as a file so we need to play nicely with case-insensitive filesystems. While www.metamachine.net and WWW.METAMACHINE.NET are the same hostname we don't want to store two different files on unix filesystems if the end user is inconsistent with their case. >From a "time is money" point of view, it's a lot cheaper for me to downcase the default (suggested) value in the installation process than it is to change the behavior of many subsystems of the application. -Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
