On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:43, Alan Horkan wrote: > i was just typing an URL for the mailing list archives and was struck > again by possibly the most annoying and broken thing about Unix based > webservers, case sensistive links.
That's the most annoying and broken thing about dos based web server, case insensitivity. Why should a and A be the same character? That's stupid. That's the behaviour it should be, or were you taught in school that your name is written alan instead of Alan ? :) > the url contained uppercase letters and i typed some of them in lowercase > and it failed > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/ > I typed > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/may/ > Could someone please adjust Apache so this does not happen, and perhaps > also consider installing mod_spel That's wrong behaviour for an webserver. > I'll try and remember to file a bug report later as a reminder and get > in touch with Hypermail as well if necessary. Please do not clutter bugzilla with useless bugs. This is a broken behaviour used on dos based systems that should not be supported. > Also as a POW someone might consider customising the 404 (and 4__) > messages (i might do it myself next week when i am less busy). This is a very good suggestion! Instead of using a mod_spell, maybe 404 (not found) should provide a google form for a search restricted to abisource.com. Cheers, -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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