Re: Cache-Control directive case sensitivity

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2011-10-17 13:11, Mark Nottingham 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> +1, and we probably should mention that as part of #231 for parameter names.

++1 ... I prefer to avoid case sensitivity whenever possible in computer
handled data.