Why are Github project document page urls case sensitive? What are the negative effects?

Question

I Just uploaded a sample index.html page for my github project repo gh-pages branch. However it seems the url used to access the documentation is case sensitive. The correct

Answer 1

The url is case sensitive, but the domain is not. So

http://harindaka.github.com/ASPTokenInput/

differs from

http://harindaka.github.com/asptokeninput/

but

http://HARINDAKA.github.com/ASPTokenInput/

does not.

Read the RFC; http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986