Re: domainname case-sensitive???
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sat, 22 Oct 1994 23:01:14 -0700
Joern Clausen writes:
> I was wondering, if the domain part of a URL is case-sensitive. I would say
> no, as they are usually not case-sensitive in the rest of the UNIX world.
If the hostname can be identified as a FQDN, then yes it should be
case insensitive. Future versions of wwwurl'absolute() will do
$addr =~ s/\.$//;
$addr =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
because a trailing "." can also be removed for canonicalization.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
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