Things you should do now (2011)

Re:Things you should do now (2011) by ivanbakel on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:47AM (#26191665)

Those shorter strings can come with their own caveats. Long-form UUIDs have the nice property of being URL-safe - but IIRC, path pieces in HTTP urls are not meant to be case-sensitive, and browsers have historically tried to "help" by re-casing URLs. For correct semantics, short UUIDs have to go in the request parameters instead.

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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by hansvm on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:45AM (#26194331)

Most of the url (including the path pieces) is supposed to be case sensitive unless otherwise specified for a given protocol (and treating e.g. %3A the same as %3a). This should be the most recent RFC on the topic: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.2.1

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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by account42 on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:37AM (#26193577)

> IRC, path pieces in HTTP urls are not meant to be case-sensitive, and browsers have historically tried to "help" by re-casing URLs.

That would break with any webserver that is serving files from a case-sensitive filesystem. Which is most of them.

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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by Deadron on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:36AM (#26194233)

Windows....enough said.

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