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johndegern_4568
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusForcing lowercase only works the first time
So I am trying to force ALL HTTP requests to lowercase and i'm using this rule:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
HTTP::path [string tolower [HTTP::path]]
}
It works on the host and it wo...
Michael_YatesNimbostratus
NimbostratusThe first part of a URL is universally case insensitive [HTTP::host], but the URI [HTTP::uri]can be case sensitive depending on the operating system hosting the website.
Windows (IIS) - links will get to your pages regardless of capitalization (or lack of it).
Linux/Unix - if your site is hosted in a Linux/Unix environment and you rename your page www.example.com/PopularPage.htm to www.example.com/popularpage.htm, you could suddenly find yourself facing a drop in traffic as people clicking on the search engine link get a 404 error telling them that the page cannot be found.
