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Re: How to use "do shell script" to search for RegExps
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Re: How to use "do shell script" to search for RegExps


  • Subject: Re: How to use "do shell script" to search for RegExps
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:35:23 -0700

Filed a bug report against what?

I don't see a bug here with Safari, but arguably with the resolver.

According to DNS RFC <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1034.html>

> By convention, domain names can be stored with arbitrary case, but
> domain name comparisons for all present domain functions are done in a
> case-insensitive manner

And maybe more relevant is the HOSTS table RFC
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc952.html> which clearly states:

> No distinction is made between upper and lower case.

So Safari isn't necessarily wrong in converting to lower case. The resolver
should return the same result whether you request 'Mercury' 'mercury', or
'MeRcuRY'.

Andrew
:)

On 4/22/04 10:12 AM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 09:28 -0700 4/22/04, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>> In OS X (i.e. since AS 1.6), volume names in file paths have been
>> case-sensitive and were made so in AS 1.8.3 for OS 9 for compatibility.
>
> I like to access a Linux box I call Mercury from my OS neXt box called Earth.
>
> Mercury is defined in my hosts file with a local IP address and I telnet to it
> by name from Terminal.
>
> Safari, if given a URL like ftp://Mercury/. . . . will convert to lower case
> mercury and look into the hosts file for that. Yes the bug was submitted
> several versions ago. My workaround is to make two lines in hosts, Mercury
> and mercury. Someday I'll try MERCURY.
>
> Volume names are not well cased throughout the Apple environment.
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