Re: Case sensitivity of urls

     URLs are case-sensitive, so any operations on them should use
case-sensitive operations. It's true that some servers, including those
running on Windows platforms, will map case-sensitive URLs to a
case-insensitive filesystem, but the URLs themselves are fundamentally
case-sensitive.

     -- Martin

Martin Presler-Marshall - Program Manager, Privacy Technology
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                    "Giles Hogben"                                                                                   
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We have come across a problem in our testing relating to the INCLUDE and
EXCLUDE urls in policy reference files:
The question is, should the urls contained in these be matched case
insensitive or case sensitive.
There seem to be problems associated with both alternatives:

1. If you require case sensitivity, then if the user accesses a Microsoft
based server with the wrong case, the policy will not be found.
For example if I try to access www.microsoftserver.com/testPage.html
which is actually at www.microsoftserver.com/testpage.html
And my policyreference file contains <INCLUDE>/testpage.html</INCLUDE>
2. If you do not require case sensitivity, then on a Unix based server,
there could conceivably be different policies applying to files which
differ only by case for example

<INCLUDE>/testpage.html</INCLUDE>
<EXCLUDE>/testPage.html</EXCLUDE>

What is the policy on this?

Thanks

Giles Hogben

Received on Monday, 29 October 2001 08:04:33 UTC