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Re: Disappearing API docs

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Disappearing API docs
Date	2016-07-19 20:40 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 7/19/2016 3:49 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 3:23:48 PM UTC-4, Roedy Green wrote:
>> Put it this way, I had all kinds of reference in my website with
>> Javase.  My link checker warns me of broken links after failing 5
>> days.  It went off this morning. Perhaps Oracle have just stopped
>> accepting Javase as an alternate.
>
> It does seem odd.  I put these in Chrome:
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/ is a valid web site.
> http://docs.oracle.com/Javase/8/docs/api/ is not a valid web site.
> https://www.google.com/ is a valid web site.
> https://www.gOOglE.coM/ redirects to https://www.google.com/
> https://yAhOo.CoM redirects to https://www.yahoo.com/
>
> FTP paths would be case sensitive if the server is unix based.  I didn't think web sites were.

Hostnames are not case sensitive.

RFC 952 for host names say:

"No distinction is made between upper and lower case."

RFC 3986 for URI's say:

"Although host is case-insensitive, producers and normalizers
should use lowercase for registered names"

Paths may be case sensitive.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/htmlweb.html

say:

"URLs in general are case-sensitive (with the exception of machine
names). There may be URLs, or parts of URLs, where case doesn't matter,
but identifying these may not be easy. Users should always consider
that URLs are case-sensitive."

I think that in practice path is case sensitive when mapped
to a case sensitive file system and case in-sensitive when
mapped to a case in-sensitive file system.

It is just practical.

Assume you have a dir with:

x.html
X.html

For case sensitive path then it is easy:

http://blabla/x.html gets x.html
http://blabla/X.html gets X.html

For case in-sensitive path then I am not sure
what these URL's should return:

http://blabla/x.html
http://blabla/X.html

Arne

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Disappearing API docs Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-07-19 06:46 -0700
  Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 06:54 -0700
    Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 10:36 -0700
      Re: Disappearing API docs Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-07-19 12:23 -0700
        Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 12:49 -0700
          Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-19 20:31 +0000
            Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 13:59 -0700
              Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 14:52 -0700
              Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-19 22:03 +0000
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 05:36 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-20 17:10 +0100
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 10:39 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-20 13:59 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 11:08 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 21:55 +0000
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-20 18:19 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:31 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 10:08 +0100
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:30 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:16 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-07-22 15:24 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 15:34 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 19:29 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-07-23 21:45 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-30 22:33 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-08-02 11:07 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-02 14:26 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-08-02 15:53 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-03 21:55 -0400
              Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:43 -0400
          Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:40 -0400
            Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 11:45 +0000
              Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-20 08:47 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 18:44 +0000
  Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:24 -0400

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