In what cases does capitilization affect a url? In some cases they seem to be case-sensitive. At other times they don’t seem to be case sensitive.
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In what cases does capitilization affect a url? In some cases they seem to be case-sensitive. At other times they don’t seem to be case sensitive.
Domain names are case insensitive. The path and query string afterwords are case sensitive. So
www.yahoo.comandWWW.YAHOO.COMare identical, butwikipedia.org/bashis different fromwikipedia.org/Bash.It is up to the web server to interpret the path portion, so generally speaking Windows web servers might not care what case you use for file names and may allow both
index.aspandIndex.asp. UNIX web servers generally do distinguish based on case since the underlying file system does. Or if a web site is running custom software to interpret its URLs, like Wikipedia does with its MediaWiki software, then it can do whatever it likes.