Case-Sensitive conflicts in Short Links

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Peter Lafford

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Dec 18, 2012, 12:41:02 PM12/18/12
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I was surprised to find that the Short Links system allowed me to create a short link "/AaaBbbb", while there was already another link "/aaabbbb", and it did not warn me of the conflict.

  

However, the system is apparently case-sensitive, but at the same time, it is NOT case-sensitive. That is, if you type in lower case a URL that has CAPS, and there is NOT a matching lower-case URL, it will take you to the URL that was created with CAPS and lower case.  So, the link "/XXyyyy" can be reached by typing the URL as either "XXyyyy" OR "xxyyyy" .

 

But to reach MY "/AaaBbbb" you must type it exactly.  If you type "/aaabbbb" it goes to the lowercase URL; if you type "/Aaabbbb" it does NOT find a case-matching URL so it defaults to the lower-case short link.

 

Shouldn't the system disallow URL's which conflict by virtue of case?

Peter Pavlovic

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Dec 18, 2012, 7:32:15 PM12/18/12
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URL's are case sensitive aren't they?
Try going to a site to test...

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