Posted by Denise on 09/26/06 22:57

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"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0609262329430.16754@ppepc20.ph.gla.ac.uk...
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Denise wrote:
>
>> All I really want to do is have it check the case, which wouldn't
>> involve any security problems, but it seems that's not possible.
>
> Here's another possibility. If you take a look at
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/platform/windows.html#cust , then
> there is, amongst other things, a recipe (third bullet point) which
> will force all URLs to lower case.
> (don't be confused that the recipe is given for the Win32 context - it
> looks equally usable in unix-ish contexts too). (Not actually tested
> in practice, I admit).

I'll take a look at it, thanks for the idea.
>

> It uses mod_rewrite - but if your
> provider has excluded mod_speling then it's on the cards that they
> would have excluded mod_rewrite also. But it might be worth a try.

Mod_rewrite works fine.

> Another alternative is to provide a custom 404 script which fixes-up
> the kind of error you're talking about. But that would be a whole new
> discussion theme...

Yeah, I don't want to go that route.
>
> good luck

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