I included links to several docs on my site in an opensuse list email an hour or so ago. After a while, I checked my apache2 log for hits on any of those links. Except for my own testing, I found none. But, I did find two that were 403, apparent reason being that whoever tried had converted all of the CAPS that are part of the URLs provided to lower case.
1-Is 403 a normal response when the only reason for not fulfilling the request is a matter of case?
2-Do sites commonly set a configuration option in apache2 to ignore case?
3-Anyone aware if any commonly used email apps submit mixed case links in all lower case, smartphones maybe?
Hello,
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014 schrieb Felix Miata:
I included links to several docs on my site in an opensuse list email an hour or so ago. After a while, I checked my apache2 log for hits on any of those links. Except for my own testing, I found none. But, I did find two that were 403, apparent reason being that whoever tried had converted all of the CAPS that are part of the URLs provided to lower case.
Strange :-/
1-Is 403 a normal response when the only reason for not fulfilling the request is a matter of case?
I'd expect a "404 not found" instead a "403 forbidden". What's the exact message in your apache error log?
2-Do sites commonly set a configuration option in apache2 to ignore case?
I don't, and I'd guess most sites are case sensitive.
3-Anyone aware if any commonly used email apps submit mixed case links in all lower case, smartphones maybe?
No idea, sorry.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
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