CAPS in URLs

does it cause problems

[HelenDev]

I know it's probably not ideal to have capital letters in your URLs but does it cause them not to work in any situations?

[sonjay]

Unix servers are case-sensitive -- so if you use filenames or pathnames like "/MyDirectory/MyFile.html" then if people use "/mydirectory/myfile.html" it won't work. So you have to be very specific about capital letters when giving someone a full domain+path+filename.

I think there's some special module you can install and use in Apache (similar to a mod_rewrite) that causes Apache to not care about case sensitivity.

The actual domain name is case-insensitive on any machine: example.com = EXAMPLE.COM = ExAmPlE.COM

[Span]

mod_speling maybe:
[httpd.apache.org ]
But I think it's best to use only lower-case.

[HelenDev]

But I think it's best to use only lower-case.

I will change it. Thanks for the replies guys :)

[DrDoc]

Interestingly enough -- all domain names are in ALL CAPS in the root servers ;)

[ergophobe]

But domain names and email addresses are case-insensitive.

Only the parts that reference the local file system matter.

A reason that comes to mind to use mixed case for a domain name is so that it is easier to read when it is written out visibly for the user

<a href="http://mydomainisgreat.com/">http://MyDomainIsGreat.com/</a>

Reasons that come to mind not to mix case on the domain name are
- it's easier if everything is one case (preferably lower) in your file system and file names and it's easier still if you just stick to that for domain names too.

- you will get better compression if everything is the same case and you use compression.

Tom

[DrDoc]

you will get better compression if everything is the same case and you use compression

Huh? What does that have to do with compression?