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> So, assuming case matters is foolish

Oh so much fun with my yearly quiz testing students about case-sensitivity! They're always wrong because thinks are so horribly broken.

It is absolutely foolish, assuming case _may_ not matter in the Internet. Case does not matter, true, except it does.

One of my favourite parts: URL paths are case-sensitive, except most servers do not care (because of a case-insensitive filesystem), and they're not always case-sensitive, e.g. for the mailto-scheme the path is case-insentive, because the path is actually an e-mail adress (which is itself case-insensitive).



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