- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:11:00 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- cc: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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. -- / daniel.haxx.se
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