fileserver: document hide case-sensitivity (F-CADDY-FILESERVER-HIDE-CASE-001)#7548
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LGTM! Thank you for enhancing our docs.
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this is a docs-only change clarifying that file_server hide comparisons are case-sensitive. on case-insensitive filesystems, a differently-cased request path may still resolve to the same on-disk path, so hide should not be treated as a security boundary for sensitive paths.