Item9284: web defaulting fails if url has a lowercase web

http://trunk.foswiki.org/bin/view/system

goes to Main, no error reported.

http://foswiki.org/bin/view/system silently redirects to http://foswiki.org/system and then quietly does the wrong thing too

the user should at least know there was something wrong...

this is a bit related to shorterurls, and a bit to something else i fear

-- SvenDowideit - 09 Jul 2010

There is already a hack in place in Foswiki.pm to ucfirst the topic name. I don't like that hack, nor the idea of a similar hack for webs, because the validity of web and topic names is dictated by the configured regexes, not some arbitrary hard-coded heuristics. system may be a perfectly valid web name.

However if you reach the end of the view script with uninterpreted path info left over, I guess you could detect it. Of course you'd have to decide what "uninterpreted" means, as it may be fodder for a REST call, or for a plugin.

I don't think this is a release blocker. It's a bit clumsy, but not a killer. Confirmed at Normal prio.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 10 Jul 2010

Similar to Item929 - The URL is validated for a valid Topic and Web name. An invalid name - illegal characters, web without Capitalization, embedded spaces, etc. is removed and then default URL handling kicks in substituting WebHome and Main as needed. Unfortunately it doesn't go one step further and remove the illegal webname from the url by redirecting to Main or sending an oops.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Mar 2011

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