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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] URLS (was Re: Would somebody../Re: olympus docs question)
From: Sean Mattingly <matting@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 21:39:06 +0200 (MET DST)
" > (Compliant DOS/Windows web servers generally
" > reject URL paths that contain upper-case letters, since their brain-dead
" > file systems cannot distinguishe between upper case and lower case, and
" > Internet standards require them to.)
" 
" I didn't know this behavior was required by the RFCs, and I'm sorry it is.
" Case sensitivity is the single greatest user interface botch ever
" perpetrated. (No, not case preservation, which is a separate issue; the
" Windows NT file system is case-preserving but not case-sensitive.)

<rant>

  AIGH!!!!!!  I usually hate making short replies with nearly zero
(or maybe exactly zero, in this case) content, but I just couldn't
let this pass.

  I LOVE CASE SENSITIVITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Take my case sensitivity away and I'll go nuts.

</rant>

  Thanks, I feel much better now.  :)
-- 
Sean Mattingly                      |   What is, is
----------------------              |   What is not is possible
matting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx              |   Only what is not is possible
http://www-zeus.desy.de/~matting/   |       -Einstuerzende Neubauten

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