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Case Sensitivity
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 29, '01 08:18:06PM

I had need of just this functionality this morning. Thanks for the tip, but there's a caveat:



I'm one of two Mac guys in a PC-only shop. Where the Windows people can access their desktop development servers using URLs like "http://joe2kserver/" thanks to WINS, my workaround has been modifying my hosts file.



I used the tip above to add the entries that were in my OS 9.1 hosts file to OS X's NetInfo. I discovered (during a presentation, unfortunately) that unlike the hosts workaround, NetInfo entries are case sensitive. So http://joe2kserver/ works, but http://JOE2KSERVER/ does not.



My workaround was to duplicate each of the entries and make an all-caps version. Is there a better way?




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