[Zope] Newbie: Case independent URLs?

[Robert Allyn]

I agree it is a hassle.  But...

My most important "customer" is 60 - 90 years old, often having just started to use a computer.  For them typing, let alone email and the web are all new.  They tend to exchange web page URL's via 'snail' mail, or over the phone.  The chance of them using upper case when it is not needed is pretty high.  I get a number of 404 errors in my log from users typing in the wrong case in a URL.  Because it is all new to them, they figure they did it wrong and give up.  I need to accommodate these people for the site to be useable.

That is why I am willing to jump through some hoops to make this work.

 From a brief look around, it seems IIS and Apache on Windows are case insensitive, as the OS is too dumb to know the difference. 

- Robert

At 08:10 AM 9/24/2002 -0400, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>i'm not quite sure why you insist on case insensitive URLs. case sensitive URLs are the standard all over the internet. i on't think i have ever seen a site that had case-insensitiva URLs in my life. there is no "standard technique" for this because AFAIK no one does this.
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>is there a reason you would want to invest the extra hassle and processing to somehow get case-insensitive URLs?
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>jens
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>On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 06:58 US/Eastern, Robert Allyn wrote:
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>>I think I will give this a shot.  It shouldn't be too hard to force everything lowercase before it is passed to Zope.  Now to investigate rewrite rules in Apache. :-)  (always something new to learn...)
>>
>>- Robert
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>>At 05:36 PM 9/24/2002 +0800, Tim Hoffman wrote:
>>>I believe all URL's are case dependant.
>>>
>>>The only way I would attempt it is to do the URL rewrite in apache to
>>>the correct case before passing it to Zope via mod_proxy or however else
>>>you are doing it.
>>>
>>>Rgds
>>>
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:01, Robert Allyn wrote:
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I am new to Zope.  It seems all url's in Zope are case dependant.  
>>>>Is this correct? Can I change it?
>>>>
>>>>I want family to be able to get to my photo album by entering
>>>>www.mysite.com/FamilyAlbum/  or
>>>>www.mysite.com/familyAlbum/ or
>>>>www.mysite.com/Familyalbum/ or
>>>>www.mysite.com/familyalbum/
>>>>
>>>>Is there a standard technique for dealing with this?  I tried searching the archives, but could not find relevant information (my poor searching ability I am sure).
>>>>
>>>>I am running Zope behind Apache on Win2k server.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the help.
>>>>
>>>>- Robert
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