Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Disappearing API docs Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:16:31 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1017aa77-c4fe-43f4-8195-4627cbc06e99@googlegroups.com> <4dvsobh2bbgkq66caohursk91t8bn9iuij@4ax.com> <27115dc3-85aa-4305-99bd-fdfdb28f390a@googlegroups.com> <859110c7-ef6c-421d-8d26-69020e21d094@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35088 On 7/20/2016 8:36 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 6:03:53 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie > wrote: >> If you don't know, look it up: either search for "caseless string >> comparison" of find the DNS RFC and read that. Since you apparently >> can't or won't search for it, in this case you want RFC 4343. All >> RFCs can be accessed at >> >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html > > I have worked with unix before, I am aware of case sensitive > systems. I was not previously aware that a web server would allow > case sensitive, as I'm sure I've never encountered one before. > Unless you want to obscure your publicly available data making it > hard for anyone to get to without a link it doesn't make sense. It does not matter for links. People typing in URL's manually are supposed to know that while protocol and hostnames are not case sensitive then the other parts of URL's may be. > Either it's rare for anyone to host a web site on a case sensitive > OS, Unlikely. *nix is used for most web hosting. > or case sensitive OS normally use a flag that changes all urls to > lower case? It is possible. But I don't think it is common. Arne