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 19:29:02 -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=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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:35097 On 7/22/2016 6:24 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:16:31 -0400, Arne Vajhøj > wrote: >> On 7/20/2016 8:36 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: >>> 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. > > It does matter. Try the following links: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyotO > The only difference is the final character. Q: What does not matter for links mean? A1) That URL's work no matter case. A2) That it is not a problem to get case correct. You get one guess. It is even allowed to read the next paragraph that you did not quote: #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. Arne