#359 clarify connection header field values are case-insensitive

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:21 +0200
• To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4FF2A785.906@gmx.de>

(Origin: 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953635/are-the-http-connection-header-values-case-sensitive>)

This ought to be non-controversial; I'd propose to simply state

"Connection options are compared case-insensitively."

below the ABNF (and also rename the ABNF production "connection-token" 
to "connection-option" to remove any confusion).

Proposed patch: 
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/359/359.diff>

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2012 08:05:01 UTC