Re: [naviserver-devel] read/write ns_config

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

On 23.08.2006, at 19:20, Rick Cobb wrote:

> Potential objection to normalizing the case: ns_params for CGI
> environment variables.  Environment variable names are case sensitive,
> and it's perfectly possible that there are applications that use
> lower-case names for these.  Would require changing nscgi to something
> more like
> Ns_param set {{variable_name} {value}}
>
> Don't know if there are more like this. We have used a similar
> configuration for setting java properties, though, and IIRC, at least
> some of those required mixed-case names (ClassStuff.propertyName).
>

Yes. This is right. This would be a problem. We must pass them
thru as-is w/o modification. This of course limits the choice
of backends...

I wonder who was that bright guy who wrote that in the beggining
and allowed people to play with case?! Damn.

Thanks for pointing this out!
Cheers,
Zoran