On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 18:15 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > assuming case-insensitivity With the Apache web server, there is a "helpful" option that does work around some spelling/typing errors, doing its best to try and do what you meant, rather than what you actually did (changing case, and working around one or two mistyped letters, if there's a fairly obvious match). Though, I tend to avoid it, as it leads to future problems - such as uploading your site onto another server that doesn't have that feature. Some time ago I made a policy decision that all URIs, and associated file names, should avoid the use of the shift key, completely. All letters will be lower case, and any punctuation limited to things that didn't, normally, need the shift key, and people won't mistype because they didn't know what it was (no _ underscores, all dashes are single hyphens, and using the same hyphen between words you'd, otherwise, space apart). Also, to try and use words in addresses that don't usually need spelling or explaining to people (they should be easy to dictate over the phone). Hyphenating, instead of running words together, helps to avoid some problems where people can't read a word, or you inadvertently create a rude, or otherwise objectionable, word. It's what you might call a "lazy typing" rule. Both for me, and for anybody else who might have to type in a URI. Most people will type everything in all lower case, and it's easier to read out a URI if you can state the address, and say "all lower case," rather than try to say how to type in some CamelCaseTyped portion of an address. Once you've set yourself a rule, it's easier to be consistent throughout your site. Particularly if you put enough thought into it, ahead of time, that you won't need to break it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
