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: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:55:02 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <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:35189 On 8/2/2016 2:07 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:33:08 -0400, Arne Vajhøj > wrote: >> On 7/24/2016 12:45 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:29:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj >>> wrote: >>>> #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. >>> >>> Are they? When do most people get told this? >> >> Those people can either do it the easy way and read about it >> or the hard way and notice that sometimes it does not work >> and figure out why. > > Or get confused. > > Again, when do most people get told or find out? Just us > technical people knowing is not really enough. The above applies to all people not just technical people. > >>> And even if they >>> know this, who knows what an individual Website does? >> >> It does not matter. >> >> Assuming that URL's are case sensitive will always work. > > Sure. And since assuming that URLs are not case-sensitive will > almost always work, But that is a wrong assumption. Case sensitive is the default in the most popular web server on the most popular OS. Assuming that you will not encounter the the most popular web server on the most popular OS in default setup is unrealistic. Just for fun I let a program check URL's in my bookmarks file. Out if the first 100 that returned code 200 and had a path longer than 1, then for path 37 was case sensitive and 63 was case insensitive. >>> For example, Wikipedia appears to not care about the case of the >>> first letter of each word but does care about the case of the other >>> letters. >> >> Wikipedia uses MySQL and ElasticSearch, which must have way >> more advanced match options than a standard web server >> and file system provides. > > How do you think the non-technical Web user is going to view > this? The non-technical user will just learn to type the URL case sensitive. Arne