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Jonathan & Nancy Lundquist
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003
As a recovering Windows programmer, case sensitivity in Linux makes me crazy. My friends who are Linux advocates defend it, but none of them can state a convincing case for the usefulness of having two files which have the same name differing only in case. I am still of the belief that case-preserving case-insensitive is the superior file system design, but that's not what I now have to work with.
As most non-programmers I know expect URLs to be case-insensitive (users don't read RFCs), I've come to the conclusion that the only workable solution is to maintain everything for my website in lower case in the file system. The mod_speling Apache module then makes most of the site function in a case-insensitive manner, but that still doesn't solve the problem for Blosxom URLs. In order to solve the problem within Blosxom I've written a plugin, which may be just about the smallest possible Blosxom plugin which does something useful!
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