My preference is to have my urls not case sensitive. It always makes
life easier when you don't have to worry about case sensitivity and a
user "may" try to type in a url based off of memory and get annoyed
when it doesn't work because of caps.

On May 9, 9:11 am, Jason Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sowww.company.com/HelloWorld.htmlis different 
> thanwww.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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