From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 17 5: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from capecod.net (camb1107.capecod.net [209.244.250.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9287B14D29 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 05:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crtb@capecod.net) Received: (from crtb@localhost) by capecod.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00481 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 May 1999 22:46:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:46:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Message-Id: <199905170246.WAA00481@capecod.net> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd.org domain Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (Lurker here) Officially, domain names are case-insensitive. When a URL is given, the domain name's casing is irrelevant. But if a domain name is used in a directory structure, or as part of an identifier, it may be necessary to settle on a canonical casing. In this case I'd suggest the lower case version throughout, even though the mixed-case version is prettier. The lower-case consistence will harmonize with other domain names which may occupy similar data niches. Chuck Bacon -- crtb@capecod.net ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY > There are probably several reasons why we should aim to have people > refer to the site consistently. One that springs to my mind is that > some caching software takes an MD5 sum of the URL, so will think > that FreeBSD.org and freebsd.org are different. Bingo. > One issue other than changing URLs in documents under > www.freebsd.org is that the main logo on the Web site specifies > FreeBSD.org. This logo would also need changing if we wish to be > consistent. HREFs and similar uses of domain names should be done consistently in lower case for ease of use by Microsoft and similar poorly written software. Ordinary open-source software lowercases all domain names in URLs before rummaging in a database anyhow! Of course, directory names in a URL must have case preserved. > Tom Chuck Bacon -- crtb@capecod.net ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message