Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/26/06 19:04

Toby Inkster wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> http://www.example.com/somepath/somefile.ext
>> http://www.example.com/SOMEPATH/SOMEFILE.EXT
>> http://www.example.com/somepath/somefile.EXT
>> http://www.example.com/SOMEpath/somefile.ext
>> http://www.example.com/sOmEpAtH/sOmEfIlE.eXt
>
> These are all different URLs -- it doesn't matter what the server platform
> is. It just so happens, that a Windows server will return the same text to
> the browser in each case.
>
> But that's no different to:
>
> http://example.org/foo.txt
> http://example.com/bar.txt
>
> which are also different URLs, but might (by co-incidence or design)
> happen to contain identical text.
>
But is not in the first instance a matter of indiscrimination of the
platform's files system and in the second by configuration of the web
server?

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Take care,

Jonathan
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