[Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

[Steve Willoughby]

aivars wrote:
> Hello, Lie,
> I renamed the directory back to Cgi-bin and the scripts are NOT
> working. Going back to cgi-bin it works. I also do not understand why.
> 
> Aivars
> 
> 2008/10/26 Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:52 +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>> "aivars" <aivars868 at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:c5ad28970810260045r61e5bbe4h1bbb3dffbe598619 at mail.gmail.com...
>>>> I finally get the script working!
>>>>
>>>> I renamed the script directory from Cgi-bin to cgi-bin just as Alan
>>>> told.
>>> I'm glad it worked but I confess I'm not sure why it worked. The
>>> interpreter was apparently finding your script OK but it was the
>>> environment that was messed up. I don't fully understand the interaction
>>> going on  there. But in things web related I've learned that consistency
>>> throughout is usually helpul!
>>>
>>> Alan G.
>>>
>> I wouldn't have thought it could work, since Windows is case insensitive
>> and web server is required understand URL as case insensitive. Why that
>> Cgi-bin and cgi-bin differs on a windows-based server is beyond me.

Why do you think web servers are required to understand URLs as case
insensitive?  This is not the case (other than the domain name itself).