[Twisted-Python] (no subject)

Hamish Lawson hbl at st-andrews.ac.uk
Fri Nov 15 06:59:54 EST 2002


Jeff Epler wrote:

>Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > I have a stupid device that's talking to a Twisted web server that
> > demands HTTP headers to be capitalized Like-This, however Twisted only
> > capitalizes the first character..
>[...]
> > Any chance someone could patch that up?
>
>Doubtful.
>
>http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2
>     "Field names are case-insensitive"

Nevertheless the headers are almost always presented in the HTTP spec and 
other reference materials in the style 'Content-Type'. I would guess 
therefore that this style will be the one most widely adopted by those 
broken clients that expect a particular capitalisation.


Hamish Lawson






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