[pmwiki-users] Make URLs not case sensitive?
Neil Herber
nospam at mail.eton.ca
Fri Jan 28 14:34:30 CST 2005
At 2005-01-28 01:26 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>If [[page name]] becomes a URL to http://example.com/wiki/main/pagename,
>where is PmWiki supposed to learn that it should be displayed as "Page Name"
>in the title? We'd have to use "page_name" in the URLs to keep the
>spacing and be able to figure out the capitalization rules (similar to
>how MediaWiki works).
>
>Remember that a page's name should generally have different capitalization
>from how it appears in the text, so one cannot rely strictly on the
>case of the letters in a link to determine the case of the page's title.
Forgive my boldness, but are there not three names involved here?
1) file name - the actual name used by the OS to store and retrieve the file
2) page name - the name of the Wiki page, generally identical to the file
name except for case
3) page title - the meta tag used to name the page in a browser "title"
display with a (:title:) directive
To create a page a user either enters a URL that has the non-existent name
in it, or they create a link on some page to a non-existent page and then
click on the "?". In either situation (I almost said "case", which would
have confused things!) the user has specifically entered the case of the
page name which I am assuming PmWiki can store regardless of the case used
for the file name.
I am not sure I understand the second paragraph quoted above, possibly
because of name/title usage.
Neil
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