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  Marc Buyens    Premium Member

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  Avoiding invalid URLs on a case-sensitive web server

  I have a hosted website running on a Linux server. In such case, URLs are case-sensitive. In my case, everything is lowercase. However, recently the logs started showing rather high numbers of accesses to valid URLs, however written in uppercase, which gives them a 404 error. Apparently, there is no way of automatically converting URLs via htaccess. So, the only alternative seems to be finding out where these uppercase URLs originate from and to contact these sites. However, I do not have a clue where this might come from. Anyone knowing some usual suspects such as URL shorteners, social websites, feed readers, etc.?
  
  • 01 Mar 2011, 7:33 pm
  Marc Buyens wrote: > I have a hosted website running on a Linux server. In such case, URLs > are case-sensitive. In my case, everything is lowercase. However, > recently the logs started showing rather high numbers of accesses to > valid URLs, however written in uppercase, which gives them a 404 > error. Apparently, there is no way of automatically converting URLs > via htaccess. So, the only alternative seems to be finding out where > these uppercase URLs originate from and to contact these sites. > However, I do not have a clue where this might come from. Anyone > knowing some usual suspects such as URL shorteners, social websites, > feed readers, etc.?