On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Peter Hollingsworth wrote:
> Is it possible that Analog is case-sensitive when matching on query
> strings with FILEALIAS? Is there any way to get around this?
>
Sorry not to reply to this earlier -- as you'll probably all have guessed I
was away last week.
First, you might want to be using the Internal Search Query Report instead
of constructing these FILEALIASes.
But yes, you're right, analog always treats the query string as
case-sensitive. I don't remember when I decided this, but it still makes
some sense to me :-) -- just because the file system is case-insensitive, we
can't assume the same about the processing of the query string by some
external cgi program. (And of course the arguments in the query string may
be case-sensitive even if the keywords are case-insensitive).
However, it's clear that usage differs on this point -- people have recently
made the same point about referrers. I would welcome feedback from people on
what's the 'right' thing to do here. How about just making the keywords
case-insensitive (or per-filename case-configurable) in the four search
reports, for example, and leaving them alone otherwise?
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
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