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Geoff Coffey's latest activity

Friday, July 18 2008
578 Mime type lookup_by_extesion is case sensitive was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Geoff Coffey
    Geoff Coffey commented at 3:51 PM

    On a Unix platform 'foo.css' != 'foo.CSS'.

    Of course not. Nobody is arguing that point except you.

    On a "unix" platform, though, a mime-type mapping in Apac...

  • Geoff Coffey
    Geoff Coffey commented at 2:56 PM

    case does not matter in the file extension for mime-mapping purposes in any scenario I have ever seen in all my life. And I am not a windows dev.

    Extension->m...

  • Geoff Coffey
    Geoff Coffey commented at 6:53 AM

    Case is significant in URIs, but in practice, it is not so with extensions. For instance, Apache's AddType directive is documented here:

    http://httpd.apache.o...

  • Geoff Coffey
    Geoff Coffey commented at 1:06 AM

    I'm curious why we wouldn't want to fix this. File extensions are not considered case sensitive in any way I'm familiar with. Put another way, if I register "j...

Tuesday, July 08 2008
578 Mime type lookup_by_extesion is case sensitive was updated in Ruby on Rails