[GreenKeys] ITTY

[Sam Stinson]

This is because OS X file system itself is case-insensitive by default, and therefore a web server running on it will be broken by design. You can however use a case-sensitive filesystem on a Mac and then things will work in a case-sensitive fashion as expected.

IIS and Windows have the same problem, with no easy fix.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/htmlweb.html

“URLs in general are case-sensitive (with the exception of machine names). There may be URLs, or parts of URLs, where case doesn't matter, but identifying these may not be easy. Users should always consider that URLs are case-sensitive.”

> On Feb 28, 2018, at 16:02, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Sam Stinson wrote:
>> 
>> Domain names themselves are case-insensitive, but everything after the domain name is most certainly case-sensitive. Compare these for example:
> 
> Depends on the server itself; I can verify that the Apple Mac, for instance, responds to either case whilst preserving it:
> 
> ozzie:~ dave$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/cups/index.html
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2362 Jul 31  2016 /usr/share/doc/cups/index.html
> ozzie:~ dave$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/cups/index.HTML
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2362 Jul 31  2016 /usr/share/doc/cups/index.HTML
> 
> They are the same file (the lower-case one)...
> 
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