Capital letters in URL - How to set?

[robbie007]

Anyone an idea how to use capital letters in URL's in Presta's latest version 1.5.2?

 

If I add or change a product via catalog > products > edit > seo the capital letters are directly changed into lowercase in the field friendly URL, so can't put it in.

 

Very frustrating because I don't want to make handmade redirects for my old indexed URL's wich look like /Products-Tennis.html for example. Now I can only make /products-tennis.html.

 

Wich piece of script can I change? When I make a category in Presta then it does allow capital letters. So it has to be possible.

 

Thanks in advance!

[guest*]

SERP's do not make any difference between capital letters or not. Why do you want them so ?

[robbie007]

My content (all indexed URL's) have capital letters in it. For example like /Tennis-Racket

[guest*]

It's a bad old SEO practice and it does not make any difference for SERP's nowadays. By the way some plattforms cannot re-write them correct. IIS can, others not:

 

http://www.webmaster...tml/3267819.htm

http://www.searcheng...-and-seo/12667/

http://forums.jaguar...main-names.html

[robbie007]

Ok, so it's on the server side. You say it's better to use redirects on all indexed URL's.

Why not allow to set server to allow capital letters? Then you don't have to use redirects.

[robbie007]

Ok, just made a check. If i put in my browser /Tennis-Racket it automaticaly redirects to /tennis-racket

so there seems to be no problem. I use the pretty url module as well. Will there be no duplicate of content in this way?

 

Content is indexed in Google etc with URL /Tennis-Racket will it give an 404?

Edited December 28, 2012 by robbie007 (see edit history)