[Pmwiki-users] Case Insensitive URLs

Steven Leite steven_leite
Fri Apr 2 21:30:05 CST 2004


I've never been a fan of CamelCase .. so I'm in favour of a simpler
(all-lower-case-file-system approach).

-S

> This would probably be a deeper intervention in the workings of PmWiki
than
> some, since it would probably mean changing the case of files and
> directories in the filesystem (likely to all lower for normalization), so
it
> would have to be done with some care and possibly with no return path once
> the choice had been made. But I would love to have the option of a
> case-insensitive wiki.
>
> Once done it would be pretty easy to have the engine return the same page
> for requests like...
>
>    http://wiki.foo.org/Staff/ITCouncilMinutes
>    http://wiki.foo.org/staff/itcouncilminutes
>    http://wiki.foo.org/Staff/ITcouncilMinutes
>    http://wiki.foo.org/STAFF/ITCouncilminutes
>
> Much simpler for most users.
>
> ...Eric
>
> Eric Celeste / 612-624-4126 / efc at umn.edu / http://umn.edu/home/efc
> Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
> University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Libraries
>
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