- From: Fisher Mark <fisherm@tce.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:26:42 -0500
- To: "'Greg Stein'" <gstein@lyra.org>, jamsden@us.ibm.com
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>Note that HTTP servers running on an MSFT platform typically treat URLs in >a case-insensitive fashion (due to the filesystem being insensitive). Just a refresher, here, folks. The actual NTFS filesystem code on WinNT is case-sensitive, but the Win32 subsystem that is normally used to access it is case-preserving but case-insensitive. That is, if you have a file named "Makefile", you can use any of "makefile", "Makefile", "makeFile", "MakeFile", etc. to access that file with the Win32 subsystem. I think that the NT POSIX subsystem is case-sensitive, but I don't know of any webservers that run under the NT POSIX subsystem. As far as I know, Windows2000 preserves these semantics. The upshot being that Apache on NT, as it runs under the Win32 subsystem, will case-fold on a PUT -- it can't help itself. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_
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