Server loose character case in file names

I’m helping to cleanup links for 171816 – www.access2base.com - This site can’t be reached - DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN and strumpled about following sentence in BaseDocumenter, to document your Base applications » Libreoffice Extensions :

Before installing the extension, rename the downloaded file from basedocumenter.oxt to BaseDocumenter.oxt. Then proceed as usual.

@juanjosegzl is it possible to modify the server software to not lose the case in the file names for these specific extensions?

Hi Dennis,

sure I can work on it and keep you posted.

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Hi Dennis,

just to confirm, you say the links were wrong and you fixed them and now you want to prevent this from happening in the future?

If that’s the case I can tell you that this was a problem with the initial migration task, now when you upload a file it preserves the case correctly

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Yes/No.

@JPLED uploaded that extension and added this note (his extension). It seems that at least the old extensionsite modified the uppercase filenames to all lower case. I guess the extension needs the case charactes in the filename. I have no clue, if this is still the case as the oxt was not updated since the migration.

Is it possible to reupload an extension without modifying the version? :thinking:

yes you can edit an existing release and replace the file, and then re-request publication.

When I download the files here BaseDocumenter, to document your Base applications » Libreoffice Extensions all of them have at least one uppercase letter

might be this an issue related to the operating system on the client?

  1. I confirm that the uppercase characters are necessary in the file names.

  2. The link to the access2base.com site is broken, indeed.
    The workaround is to expand the BaseDocumenter.oxt extension file with a archiving software (ark, zip, …) and to extract the Help directory on your hard disk. Open basedocumenter.html from your hard disk.

Ah, great. But was this sentence added because of the old extension site or because some stupid old file system of the user? (Aka just in the case add this disclaimer)…

Or can it simply removed for 99% and is existing for these 1% users?