When I first encountered this issue back in a beta release, I thought it was a bug, as well (in fact, I nearly filed it as one), however someone explained it to me, and it made sense. When I saw this thread, I couldn't remember what that reason was, so I asked Sean, and he reminded me that the purpose is to make your ColdFusion code case-insensitive, even on a UNIX platform. In other words, by lowercasing the filenames before looking up the CFC, you call call a component "Person.cfc" or "PERSON.CFC" or "perSON.cFc" in your code, and "person.cfc" will always be the name looked up.
It seems strange at first, but it makes sense. It is essentially an attempt to make CF case-insensitive on a case sensitive OS. Christian On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Dave Carabetta wrote: >> No, when a CFM looks up a CFC, it has to be lowercase. However, the >> bug >> is when a CFC calls another CFC, it's case insensitive and it should >> be >> lowercase just like the original. > > I guess that's my next question then. Why does it *have* to be lower > case? > If I'm on a *nix system, I've come to expect case-sensitivity in my > file > naming. Why the change for MX? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
