AFAIK, all URLs and even e-mail addresses past the "@" are case
sensitive.  The only time they might not be would be on a [yechhhh]
dozerware server.

To the IXish programs, THISFILE.exe is different from THISfile.exe and
thisfile.EXE, and ../downloads/ is totally NOT ../Downloads/ or
/downLoads/

:>

l.d.
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:05:16 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:

> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>> BTW, I have been getting on the internet very frequently for the past five
>> years.  This is the very first time I have ever encountered a
>> case-sensitive URL.  Until just now I have never paid any attention to
>> case when typing in a URL name.  I used to always seem to get to wherever
>> I wanted to go regardless.  Case-sensitive URLs must be quite rare.  Have
>> any of you guys ever come across case-sensitive URLs?

> I haven't seen one that WASN'T case sensitive on my own site. :(
> I think this is Unix being particular.

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