150913 - url should not be case sensitive

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Ryan Parnell]

In testing my page I went to my local URL http://192.168.168.71/WSS/login.asp.

I found in Mozilla 1.0 that my css and images didn't load. They work in all
other browsers include the RC 1 of mozilla which I replaced just today with 1.0.
I discovered they had become case sensitive to when I then browsed to
http://192.168.168.71/wss/login.asp - note 'WSS' is now lowercase - the CSS and
images loaded fine.

This is a huge bug and needs to be correctes ASAP since I can't predict my web
site visitors will type in the correct case!

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

Darin--this is invalid, correct?

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

URLs are and have always been case sensitive. I don't think Mozilla had this
wrong anytime in the near past, including RC1.

The testcase refuses connection, so I cannot see if there might be another problem.

pi

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

seems invalid to me.  the file path portion of a http:// URL is case sensitive.

Comment 4

[Ryan Parnell]

test cuz last time nothing happened.

Comment 5

[Ryan Parnell]

OK, I tried to add comments before and nothing happened so here goes again.

The reason the URL didn't work is because (I thought you'd know this ) the URL 
I gave was in the 192.168.x.x range which is a private non-routable range. I 
figured the test would be so easy to replicate I didn't bother. I'll now supply 
a test you can try.

Second, I'll give you that (I think) on UNIX boxes the URL can be case 
sensitive, but that's an operating system/web server enforcement, not a browser 
enforcement and that's how it should be. The web browser should not enforce 
case sensitivity. That's outside it's scope.

So here's a test you can try to see my point. Navigate to 
http://www.onetug.org/tocome/images/logo.gif. I get an error stating "The 
image “http://www.onetug.org/tocome/images/logo.gif” cannot be displayed, 
because it contains errors."

Now navigate to http://www.onetug.org/tocome/images/Logo.gif. For me, it 
resolves ( Mozilla build 2002053012 ). Notice the only difference is the 
capital L in logo.gif.

Try the same experiment with any other browser you wish (IE, Operah, Netscape 6 
& 4 )and it resolves both URLs, as it should. I don't think this was an issue 
with RC1, but I'd have to reinstall it to verify.

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

URLs are case sensitive, this has nothing to do with OS.

FWIW, both pictures work for me. But this is only a question of what the
*server* delivers.

Still INVALID.

pi

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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