Michael Everson wrote:

> >URLs tend to be case specific.

> That isn't true. Case folding is built-in to them and to
> e-mail addresses. htTp://wWw.eVertYpe.coM/Formal.hTml works
> no differently from http://www.evertype.com/formal.html

I believe that's only true at the top level -- once you get past the
first / (following the TLD) in a URL, it apparently depends on the web
server and/or the underlying OS.

http://www.sun.com/software/

is different from

http://www.sun.com/SOFTWARE/

(Apache on Solaris).

OTOH,

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

is the same as

http://office.microsoft.com/EN-US/DEFAULT.ASPX

(IIS on Windows Server).


/Jelks