I frequently visit https://news.ycombinator.com/active and sometimes I accidentally type https://news.ycombinator.com/ACTIVE which provides me with a nice<p><i>Unknown.</i><p>message...<p>Should a URL string be case insensitive or does it actually matter?
StackOverflow is typically a good place for this question. [1]<p>Most web servers on unix or linux the URL is case sensitive. IIS on windows the URL is not case sensitive. The domain name is not case sensitive.<p><a href="https://tinyvpn.org/cs/" rel="nofollow">https://tinyvpn.org/cs/</a><p><a href="https://tinyvpn.org/Cs/" rel="nofollow">https://tinyvpn.org/Cs/</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15641694/are-uris-case-insensitive" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15641694/are-uris-case-i...</a>
While the host part is case-insensitive, the path is case-sensitive on almost every website. In principle a website could choose to do a case-insensitive match, but I can't think of one that does.