Re: Issue 163, was: Meaning of invalid but well-formed dates

On Sun, 17 May 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>> Case sensitivity. Plain strings in ABNF are case insensitive.
>
> Oh.  I didn't realise date strings in HTTP were case sensitive.  I just 
> thought they were always generated that way for maximum compatibility and 
> convention, in the same way that we capitalise HTTP header names according 
> to convention.

It does beg the question: are implementations doing the comparisons case 
sensitively when parsing data in HTTP headers? I know libcurl certainly 
doesn't...

And yeah, I wasn't aware of them being case sensitive either.

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  / daniel.haxx.se

Received on Sunday, 17 May 2009 21:10:37 UTC