Can we please have a way of dealing with sites where case doesn't
matter, and over the years there have been all kinds of links made to
the same file, that we click, and wastefully get the same file, or
don't click, fearing a big download, while all along the file already
was gotten by us long ago.

$ wwwoffle-ls http://www.dgt.gov.tw
/Chinese/About-dgt/publication.shtml
/CHINESE/About-dgt/publication.shtml
/Chinese/About-dgt/Publication.shtml
/Chinese/About-Dgt/publication.shtml...

Probably a declaration in wwwoffle.conf about what sites are to be
considered case-insensitive, and map all wwwoffle transactions
regarding those sites into all lower case (except %B3%E9 stuff? so
maybe all upper case? but hard on eyes, so lower case?).

Thereafter, even links that have already been fetched would show
proper color, despite their case.

We would probably also need to run a script to rename pages already in
the cache to lower case, picking which ones of multiple copies
(probably the newest one) we want to become the lower case version.

You see, those Microsoft users are enjoying the Good Times, walloping
it up without regards to case, where as here we are, Mrs. Strict the
Librarian, making separate copies of everything they make --- thinking
every little minor difference in how they sign their name represents a
whole other person.

So, even though they are wrong with their case insensitive sloppiness,
wwwoffle should show its prowess in being able to deal with cases such
as them... no need for auto detection based on Server HTTP headers at
this stage. Just a way in wwwoffle.conf to be able to list the names
of (some of the) case-insensitive sites that have become big problems
for us, so wwwoffle can deal with them case-insensitively.

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