Re: #359 clarify connection header field values are case-insensitive from Willy Tarreau on 2012-07-03 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:00:00 +0200
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20120703180000.GA17454@1wt.eu>

Hi Julian,

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:21AM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> (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."

Indeed, if people still have issues with this (and I used to years ago), better
clarify it.

Willy

Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2012 18:00:36 UTC