Timeline for Should URL paths be case sensitive?
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 2:38 | comment | added | MrWhite | I actually stumbled through here whilst researching the recent/busy question "Why are URLs case-sensitive?". It seems that phrases like "IIS is case-insensitive" (mentioned several times in that other thread) are so widespread that common belief appears to be that URLs on IIS are always case-insensitive - at least that's the impression I was getting - which does not appear to be the case at all. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 2:32 | comment | added | MrWhite | Well, IIS always runs on Windows (AFAIK), so filesystem requests will always be case-insensitive. However, many sites will route (rewrite) URLs through some kind of front controller - in this case the request probably does not map to a physical file on the filesystem and so the URL is probably case-sensitive (unless the app specifically makes it case-insensitive) - which is basically the same as Apache (when running on Windows). (?) | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 1:08 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated based on w3dk's finding reported in comments
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 1:06 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | @w3dk What does IIS run on that has a case sensitive file system? | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | MrWhite | In fact, this would seem to be the same for IIS. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 2:05 | comment | added | MrWhite |
Whether Apache is case-sensitive for requests that map to the filesystem is dependent on the underlying filesystem, not Apache itself. If running Apache on Windows then requesting /iNdEx.HtMl or /InDeX.hTml will both return /index.html (providing that /index.html is a physical file on the filesystem).
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| Oct 9, 2014 at 3:46 | comment | added | Sun | I feel this is an artifact of DOS and Windows deviating from the previous standard of case sensitivity we have in Unix environments. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 13:20 | vote | accept | henrywright | ||
| Oct 4, 2014 at 22:31 | history | answered | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |