Uppercase domain

[ecchi]

My stats program takes referrer details from $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} trims off the http://www. and anything after the / and saves what is left (i.e. the domain name). Although it trims it, it saves it exactly from $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}. So can anyone tell me why my early morning stats included this gem:

torture-annie-in-bondage.com - 19
google.com - 3
google.com.mx - 1
greenguysboard.com - 3
google.co.in - 4
google.it - 1
TORTURE-ANNIE-IN-BONDAGE.COM - 1

As you can see it got the 19 hits from torture-annie-in-bondage.com but also one from TORTURE-ANNIE-IN-BONDAGE.COM. How the heck did it get a domain name in all capitals? Even if it was a type in, I thought the surfer's browser would have changed it to lowercase before sending it to the domain name lookup thingy ("thingy" being the correct technical term for any part of the Internet that I don't understand).

Any ideas?

[Cleo]

I can type all up case and it stays that way.

[Greenguy]

I used to pay extra at Network Solutions for uppercase domains names.





































APRIL FOOLS!!!!!

(Yes, this is gonna get old REAL quick)

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I can type all up case and it stays that way.

Thanks, so I guess this came from a surfer using an Apple thingy.

""Thingy" is also the correct technical term for any computer that I don't understand, and as my experience on Apple thingies is limited to about one week training on Photoshop on very old Macs during a course last century, that would explain why I had no idea they did not "correct" upper case URLs.