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  Pete P. June 13th, 2008 @ 08:09 PM

  Fyi,

  RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) - Section 2.1

  ..."For resiliency, programs interpreting URLs should treat upper case letters as equivalent to lower case in scheme names (e.g., allow "HTTP" as well as "http")."

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738... section 2.1

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  Pete P. June 13th, 2008 @ 08:29 PM

  Ok, so in the above RFC spec its really just referring to the scheme portion of the url, not the path.

  But in any case, consider the usability of having case sensitive routes

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  Jeff Dean June 19th, 2008 @ 03:44 AM

  Not only that, but in 37Signals' own book Defensive Web Design they talk about how important case-insensitive urls are.

  I agree that the path portion of urls should be case-insensitive.

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  Pratik July 23rd, 2008 @ 02:08 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
  • Tag set to “routes”

  URI should be case sensitive by default. It might be nice to give option to make them insenitive though.

  Thanks.

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  Carsten Gehling February 27th, 2010 @ 03:03 PM

  I know this is an old post, but I've just has the same problem, and solved it using middelware - have a look here:

  http://gehling.dk/2010/02/how-to-make-rails-routing-case-insensitive/

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  Jeff Dean June 12th, 2010 @ 01:34 AM

  Pratik - any chance you could elaborate on why routes should be case-sensitive?
  

  Are you aware of any apps in production that rely on case-sensitive routes? Is there a compelling performance reason to not call downcase on the incoming path when matching?