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Re: mixed case URL's



 John Abreau wrote: 
> I actually have encountered problems with case, where I had to deal 
> with users who didn't use case consistently in their web pages; they'd 
> create a Foo.Htm page and then link to foo.htm. Foo.htm and FOO.HTM. 
> They'd create these on their desktop machine and test them locally 
> with personal web sharing, or whatever XP calls it, and all case variations 
> would serve the same foo.htm page. Then they'd come to me convinced 
> that the production web server was broken. 
>   
You just have to love how Windows screws up with casing -- or more 
importantly, how a case-insensitive system interacts with a 
case-sensitive one. I always tell my Windows users to lowercase 
everything to avoid conflicts when they transfer their content to the 
Linux-based web servers. 

Even more fun is replicating between Windows and Linux with MySQL. If 
you name a table 'FooTable' and write a query like "INSERT INTO footable 
...", it works fine under Windows but breaks the replication to Linux. 
Similar situation with the name of the databases. And a major pain in 
the butt to fix. 

-Fred 


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