Why web client accesses lower-case URLs?

[Marti, Rob]

You could probably do a rewrite rule to rewrite all incoming for lowercase to the mixed case.  have to do it for every html file you have mixed case tho.

Rob Marti
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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Terry Zink [tzink at logicworks.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 17:50To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Why web client accesses lower-case URLs?

Im not sure of any recent browsers that convert case. Im thinking this
is more p.e.b.k.a.c.



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On Jul 16, 2009, at 6:37 PM, "Yong Huang" <yong321 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> [Excuse me for a message not really related to Red Hat Linux.]
>
> I have a bunch of static html and txt files using mixed case, say,
> SomeFile.html, linked to from a main page. Apache access log often
> shows that some clients, which could be from anywhere in the world,
> try to access the file somefile.html and of course get 404 return
> code. Yesterday one single client tried to access quite a number of
> these in all lower-case (and failed). All successfully retrieved
> pages happened to be files that are indeed all lower-case. Since I
> can't find the real user from the client IP, is there anything I can
> do on my end to solve the problem, short of renaming all files to
> all lower-case or creating symbolic links (or perhaps moving the
> files to a Microsoft IIS server)? What kind of web browser is the
> client possibly using?
>
> Yong Huang
>
>
>
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