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? -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
