Alias routing case sensitivity

[Memoryfox]

Hello,

we have migrated some older ASPX sites to Piranha and have defined a lot of aliases. After a few weeks running we detected many 404 errors, although aliases were defined for the requested URLs. The reason for this is the different case sensitivity of the requested URLs.

With cache turned on, the alias lookup is always case sensitive (direct comparison). Without cache it depends on the database (i. e. collation on SQLServer).

Example:
Alias: /public/support.aspx -> /support
Request 1: /public/support.aspx -> redirected
Request 2: /public/Support.aspx -> 404 Not Found

The different case sensitivity of old URLs is due to historical reasons. It is also possible for users to enter a URL manually in the browser and save it as a favorite. The case sensitivity is then undefined.

What do you think? Thank you.

[tidyui]

I would consider this a bug in the cache lookup, will add this to the next release. As a temporary fix

1. Make sure all aliases in the database are lower-case
2. Add a custom middle first in the pipeline that rewrites the incoming url to lowercase and then just passes it on.