Christian Cantrell wrote: >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. > > But when running on windows (with case insensitive file systems) a lookup for
application.cfm fails if you named the file Application.cfm eventhough the filesystem can't even distinguise (sp?) the two. Another thing I notices is that you need to use the .cfm extension, eventhough I use .cfml for all my other files. Jesse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
