On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mark Jackson wrote: > Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Think about it - how many things used by average people are case >> sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user >> passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email >> addresses, URLs, the search box in Google, your AOL or Jabber buddy >> list: all case-insensitive. > > Not all URLs. Compare, for example: > > http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html > http://www.python.org/doc/summary.html
You are correct, of course. I was thinking of cases like this: http://www.python.org HTTP://WWW.PYTHON.ORG hTtP://www.PyThOn.ORG So I should have said "hostnames" instead of "URLs". In my experience, most URLs that are actually typed in are like this... http://yahoo.com http://google.com http://ebay.com http://apple.com http://amazon.com And in that form, they are not case sensitive. They only become that way when you start putting more on the end. But I'd guess that 90%+ of the time, URLs of that form are clicked on, not typed into the browser. -dan -- You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list