EE2 URLs are case insensitive. How to fix?

Additional Information:

Template preferences are set to: Enable Strict URLs - YES 404 Page - errors/404 Save Template Revisions - NO Allow Templates to be Saved as Files? - YES

I checked an older 1.7.1 site and it doesn’t appear to have this issue. I have checked a few community sites including ExpressionEngines own site and see they all have the issue in presumably EE2.2.2+

i.e.: This http://expressionengine.com/SUPPORT and this http://expressionengine.com/support work equally.

Found that EE1.7.1 sites have the same issue. Perhaps Ellis Labs sees this as a feature and not a problem. I still see this as a problem.

Hi, OutofControl.

This behavior is by design.

We compare identical templates and channel entry url_titles after converting them to lowercase so we’d have to add additional code to start comparing everything (to make sure we don’t have duplicates) based on case-insensitivity.

Can I disable this behaviour. I simply want EE to behave like normal URL’s, so if someone types in domain.tld/JOBS instead of domain.tld/jobs, they get a 404 error.

I guess in its simplest form, I would like to be able to have EE NOT convert to lower case before checking. If no option exists for this (preference or hook), where might I find this in the source so I can hack the core myself.

Thanks Sue

I honestly don’t know where that is in the code, but moving to the Development and Programming forum for additional community support.