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Re: "Difficult Characters" draft

"Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch> Wed, 07 May 1997 17:01 UTC

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Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 18:07:04 +0200
From: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
cc: Alain LaBont/e'/ <alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca>, URI mailing list <uri@bunyip.com>
Subject: Re: "Difficult Characters" draft
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:

> A http/1.1 server could decide to distinguish
>  http://wWw.lAmUtUeLlE.CoM 
> from
>  http://www.lamutuelle.com
> 
> although it would be an extremely bad idea.

Interesting. Can you tell me the area in the http/1.1 spec
that allows this? And what was the reason for this?

Regards,	Martin.

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