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[parrhesia]

Check out Apple's Mobile Me Not Found page.

Now, am I living in an alternate universe, or has capitalization never mattered in URLs?  I hope even with the new "I can get any new TLD I want" rule and "use non-English characters in domain names" proposal that capitalization won't be part of the changes. Can you imagine the phishing/squatting/general

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[eemfibble]

From what I've been told, the domain (name.com) part doesn't matter with capitalization, but any file or directory name can - that depends on your server. Apache systems will see File.html as different from file.html. I think IIS systems see them as the same, but there could be settings that change this.

Yes

[michaelcalderin]

That's essentially correct. Capitalization doesn't matter in domain names.

As a file system, Windows (and hence, IIS and Apache if it's running on Windows) doesn't care about capitalization. I believe that goes back to DOS days, when all file names were 8.3 capital letters and long file names built on top of those. Windows files are still accessible using those 8.3 file names.

Other systems, like Unix (which includes Mac OS X) don't think mike.htm and MIKE.HTM are the same files. In URLs, it's particularly annoying.

Re: Yes

[eemfibble]

From an administrator's point of view I like case-sensitive file names because I like my systems being strict! :)

That being said, I usually have every page in lowercase so its not really an issue for me.

[illdrinn]

It has always mattered. Many webservers will not handle PICTURE.JPG but will handle picture.jpg; I think you're just thinking about it differently to how the person that wrote the error page is.