Re: Cookies in Safari
Re: Cookies in Safari
- Subject: Re: Cookies in Safari
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:38:50 -0500
According to STD-1, domain names - that is, host names for network
access - are case-insensitive. It shouldn't matter whether you get
them from /etc/hosts, NIS, NetInfo, or LDAP instead of DNS. If you
put "gallifrey" in /etc/hosts, "ping GaLlIfReY" should still work. If
it doesn't, the bug lies not with Safari. I might try making the
entry all lowercase, though. "Treat it as case-sensitive if it's
mixed case" is a popular heuristic...
Now, if Safari is converting the part of a URL after the hostname to
lowercase, that is a bug. The path and query string can be case
sensitive. So can the mailbox portion of an email address (before the
@).
On 12/14/07, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 08:50 -0800 12/14/07, Philip Aker wrote:
> >On 2007-12-13, at 13:52:47, Gary (Lists) wrote:
> >
> >>"Doug McNutt" wrote:
> >
> >>>I do know that Safari has a bug in its treatment of case- insensitive
> domain names. Its procedure is to change all URL's to lower case before it
> does a domain name lookup to get an IP address. Yes I filed a bug long ago.
> >
> >>Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? There no such differences
> between "Google.com" and "google.com"...that'd be silly.
> >
> >I believe that's correct for the domain portion. But due to case sensitive
> file systems, it seems logical anything after must remain intact. Below, #1
> resolves but #2 errors on Safari.
> >
> > <http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/general/SystemNotices.html>
> >
> > <http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/general/systemnotices.html>
> >
> >>I think Safari does the right thing, WRT domain names.
> >
> >Philip Aker
> >echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
>
> BIND does case-insensitive lookups on domain names. That's the way the file
> system called DNS works. The problem is that some addresses, local things
> that might be found in /etc/hosts, are case sensitive when they point to
> Linux boxes. Safari should just pass what it gets to the domain name servers
> or nslookup. It should not make unwarranted assumptions while trying to be
> helpful.
>
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