[cas-dev] case sensitivity for RegisteredService matching

[Smith, Matt]

Just for consistency and compliance with other specs, I'd recommend
following RFC 2616, section 3.2.3 [1].  This defines how HTTP URIs
should be compared.  Here is the relevant part:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client SHOULD
use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire URIs, with
these exceptions:

- A port that is empty or not given is equivalent to the default
        port for that URI-reference;
- Comparisons of host names MUST be case-insensitive;
- Comparisons of scheme names MUST be case-insensitive;
- An empty abs_path is equivalent to an abs_path of "/".

Characters other than those in the "reserved" and "unsafe" sets (see RFC
2396 [42]) are equivalent to their ""%" HEX HEX" encoding.

For example, the following three URIs are equivalent:

http://abc.com:80/~smith/home.html
      http://ABC.com/%7Esmith/home.html
      http://ABC.com:/%7esmith/home.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Essentially, the host and scheme should be compared case-insensitive,
but the path should be case-sensitive.

HTH,
-Matt

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.2.3



On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:54 -0500, Scott Battaglia wrote:
> Right now name matching for RegisteredServices is case-sensitive.
> 
> Anyone have any objections to make it case-insensitive as per JIRA
> issue: http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/CAS-600
> 
> -Scott
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