Hi Guys, 

This might be more of a tomcat issue, but I wanted to check here first. 

Is it better to keep url's case sensitive or not?

I'm running tomcat/apache on Windows 2003 and it's case sensitive. Usually 
windows isn't, but tomcat is. 

So www.company.com/HelloWorld.html is different than 
www.company.com/helloworld.html

I looked up how to switch off case sensitivity and i found this

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html 

caseSensitive


If the value of this flag is false, all case sensitivity checks will be 
disabled. If not specified, the default value of the flag is true.

*NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to false on the Windows platform (or any 
other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem), as it will 
disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code disclosure, among 
other security problems.*

So this seems to be saying that I should keep things case sensitive. For my 
app I think I'd be ok if it were not case sensitive. 

Thoughts?

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