Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] - URL Appearance.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin D wrote:

> That's not possible, I think. URLs are case sensitive, so everything passed
> the domain name should appear as typed. I'm sure there's an RFC somewhere
> that states all domain names must be lower case.

URLs consist of two parts:

1.  The protocol name:  "http:"

2.  The full path:
"//service-or-servername.domain-name.tld/directorypath/filename"

The full path can be broken down as follows:

1. service-or-servername:  Often something like "www".  It may be null
(blank).

2. domain-name:  In my case it's "nobaloney".

3. tld: The "top-level-domain name; in my case it's "net".

4. /directory path: the directory path from the "DocumentRoot as set up
in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf; it may be null (blank).

5. /filename: the name of the "index" file.  Often index.html.  If
blank, it defaults based on a setting in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf;
usually it defaults to index.html.

Of these parts, only the directorypath and filename are case sensitive,
and only on NON-Microsoft servers.

Jeff
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