[Zope] Newbie: Case independent URLs?

[Charlie Reiman]

Another simple suggestion:

Write python script objects to redirect your most frequently hit 404
targets. So "FamilyAlbum" and "FAMILYALBUM" just redirect to familyalbum.

It would probably cover most of the cases. I imagine your customer would
only need to type in the homepage URL anyway. After that, everything would
be clicking on links.

If their typing 'FaMiLyAlBuM' though... try the custom 404 suggestion
instead.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Robert Allyn
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: Jens Vagelpohl
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: Case independent URLs?
>
>
> 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
>