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Subject: RE: [security-services] Changes for Core 26


> > Even if the file is located on a Windows or VMS machine 
> http://foo.com/Fred
> > is not equivalent to http://foo.com/FRED or http://foo.com/fred
> 
> Have you tried that via any well known http servers? Last 
> time I did, I 
> found a number of cases where those URLs were treated as 
> exactly the same.

The *server* may treat the URLs to be equivalent by mapping them to
the same resource. However from the point of view of the URI spec
they are distinct.

This was done because the lame UNIX file system is case sensitive.

		Phill
 

Phillip Hallam-Baker (E-mail).vcf



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