Commit 95922f28 authored by Joshua Slive's avatar Joshua Slive
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Add a note about case-sensitivity to the windows platform docs. 

Partially in response to the disputed vulnerability:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4110


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@433005 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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docs/manual/platform/windows.html.en

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      not backslashes. Drive letters can be used; if omitted, the drive

      with the Apache executable will be assumed.</p></li>



      <li><p>While filenames are generally case-insensitive on

      Windows, URLs are still treated internally as case-sensitive

      before they are mapped to the filesystem.  For example, the

      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#location">&lt;Location&gt;</a></code>,

      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#alias">Alias</a></code>, and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> directives all use

      case-sensitive arguments.  For this reason, it is particularly

      important to use the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code> directive when attempting

      to limit access to content in the filesystem, since this

      directive applies to any content in a directory, regardless of

      how it is accessed.  If you wish to assure that only lowercase

      is used in URLs, you can use something like:</p>



      <div class="example"><p><code>

      RewriteEngine On<br />

      RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower<br />

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]<br />

      RewriteRule (.*) ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]

      </code></p></div></li>



      <li><p>Apache for Windows contains the ability to load modules at

      runtime, without recompiling the server. If Apache is compiled

      normally, it will install a number of optional modules in the

docs/manual/platform/windows.xml

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      not backslashes. Drive letters can be used; if omitted, the drive

      with the Apache executable will be assumed.</p></li>



      <li><p>While filenames are generally case-insensitive on

      Windows, URLs are still treated internally as case-sensitive

      before they are mapped to the filesystem.  For example, the

      <directive module="core" type="section">Location</directive>,

      <directive module="mod_alias">Alias</directive>, and <directive

      module="mod_proxy">ProxyPass</directive> directives all use

      case-sensitive arguments.  For this reason, it is particularly

      important to use the <directive module="core"

      type="section">Directory</directive> directive when attempting

      to limit access to content in the filesystem, since this

      directive applies to any content in a directory, regardless of

      how it is accessed.  If you wish to assure that only lowercase

      is used in URLs, you can use something like:</p>



      <example>

      RewriteEngine On<br />

      RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower<br />

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]<br />

      RewriteRule (.*) ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]

      </example></li>



      <li><p>Apache for Windows contains the ability to load modules at

      runtime, without recompiling the server. If Apache is compiled

      normally, it will install a number of optional modules in the