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Capitals in Your URLS
Just in the last day I've been getting a ton of mail about this: People are sending me e-mail saying: "Hey! I typed in the URL for my journal, but I'm told the journal doesn't exist! I'm frustrated and I'm angry!" (or words to that effect.)
Please don't be frustrated and angry. There's a simple explanation: your AOL Journal URL is case-sensitive -- that means if there were any capital letters in the URL when it was first presented to you by AOL, you need to put those capital letters in every time you type in the URL.
So how do you know if you need capital letters in your URL? One easy way to know is to look at the title of your Journal. Your URL is partly based on the Journal title, with its spaces and special characters removed -- but not the capital letters. If you don't specifically go out of your way to remove the capital letters from your URL at the time you create your Journal, they'll be in there permanently.
"But wait!" I hear some of you say. "In other parts of the Internet, URLs aren't case-sensitive." Well, I don't know what to tell you about that. On this part of the Internet, they are.
So when in doubt, try using capital letters in your URL. The case of the disappearing Journals is solved!
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Hmmm I wonder if this is what I'm running into with the HTML I'm using and having problems with those marquees I'm trying to add, Hey John, my journal is 'silent' not, but probably more flashy check it out
Vivian
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Actually, what aren't case sensitive aren't URL's, but domain names. So everything between http:// and that first / you can capitalize any way you want. The rest may very well be case-sensitive, depending on the webserver.
Just a datapoint
9/29/03 8:46 AM