- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:43:33 +0000
- To: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Cc: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Johannes Koch schrieb: > Hi Julian > > Julian Reschke schrieb: >> HTTP headers are *not* case-sensitive, see >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.4.2.p.1>. > >> Field names are case-insensitive. > > Yes, Field _names_ are case-insensitive. That's why I wrote > > >>> Although both header names _are_ equivalent in HTTP terms, there may > >>> be a usecase :-) > > However the field values may be case-sensitive, e.g. the Location header > value is a URI. URIs are case-sensitive. Oops. Misread that. Sorry. Yes, there are use cases for keeping the information about the casing around. Similar to trailing white space in the header name. Best regards, Julian
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