Re: #359 clarify connection header field values are case-insensitive from Mark Nottingham on 2012-07-03 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:17:00 +1000
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <BA78A1A0-1792-4E72-B3D5-CFA0C41791F2@mnot.net>

+1
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On 03/07/2012, at 6:04 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> (Origin: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953635/are-the-http-connection-header-values-case-sensitive>)
> 
> This ought to be non-controversial; I'd propose to simply state
> 
> "Connection options are compared case-insensitively."
> 
> below the ABNF (and also rename the ABNF production "connection-token" to "connection-option" to remove any confusion).
> 
> Proposed patch: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/359/359.diff>
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 

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