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Re: Disappearing API docs

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On 7/20/2016 1:39 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> So you just assume no one will ever type in a url, and it's case will
> never change otherwise all existing links will be broken.  Of course
> the domain can't be case sensitive or phishers would be signing up
> for Yahoo.com, YAHOO.COM, etc.  Why would you need the rest of it to
> be case sensitive?

Because path typical get mapped to file system that may be
case sensitive.

And because query typical get processed by some program that
may be doing a case sensitive compare.

>                     Do you have any examples of a url that gets 2
> valid pages with different case?

In real life no.

But you could easily create an example.

You could even create it in Java using Tomcat.

>                                  Can you get 2 of the same email
> address with different case?

The part to the right of the @ is a host name and is not case
sensitive.

The part to the left of the @ is system specific and can
be case sensitive.

I think it is less common that it actually is.

>>> Either it's rare for anyone to host a web site on a case
>>> sensitive OS, or case sensitive OS normally use a flag that
>>> changes all urls to lower case?
>>
>> I suspect the majority of the WWW is hosted on case-sensitive
>> systems. The typical LAMP stack has case-sensitive filesystems, and
>> Apache is case-sensitive by default.
>
> Majority?  Where do you get that statistic?

That the majority of web servers are using case sensitive file
systems is easy to back up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Public_servers_on_the_Internet

How many of those are configured for actual case sensitive URL's is
a different question.

But it must be a really big chunk since it is the default.

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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