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Name: mongar
Date: September 23, 2007 at 13:43:01 Pacific
OS: solaris10
CPU/Ram: 1
Product: hp
Comment:

Hi
when users go to my website and enter the url in CAPITAL LETTERS or lower case and the file they are trying to get isnt wrritten as they wrote it they get a 404 status code.
does somebody has any idea how i can bypass
the case sensitive mechanisem of the Solaris /UNIX /linux operating system so when users missple the url they will still reach the site?
i have found a couple of solutions can some one tell me what is the best one and for what?
the solutions are:
1. use a redirect.
2. use a url rewrite.
3. use a 404 page script redirect.

thanks in advanced



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Name: fpmurphy
Date: October 21, 2007 at 16:26:13 Pacific
Reply:

UNIX filenames are case sensitive, Windows are not. Users need to be aware of that fact.

Implementing URL normalization would also help. Wikipedia has a good write up on URL normalization.


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