- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:59:28 +1100
- To: httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Logged as: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/317 Incorporated in: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1449 On 17/10/2011, at 10:11 PM, 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. > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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