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Re: Cache-Control directive case sensitivity

From: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:15:58 +0200
Message-ID: <CAKTR038B=Nm_3E1v8NskW1tQAdYcgWU6eZXBX=fZafx-NNNAMw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
SGTM.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Currently, all of the cache-control directives (e.g., max-age) are defined
> as BNF strings, which means that they're case-insensitive.
>
> However, theoretically someone could define a directive without using a
> string (as we do for some other constructs, e.g., the HTTP version
> identifier), which means that it'd be case-sensitive.
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> It seems that having such exceptions would be surprising, and that the most
> straightforward thing to do would be to define CC directive names as
> case-insensitive.
>
> Any thoughts? A quick check of squid2 shows it case-normalising them before
> comparison.
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> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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