Normalize headers

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Normalize headers

Closed this issue 12 years ago · 2 comments

#req.headers should be lower-cased, imho, to ease pattern matching. what do you think?

Answer 1 · 2012-11-13T19:40:28.000Z

update: while standard headers are handled by erlang:decode_packet() and normalized to Camel-Case-Form, custom headers ain't. of particular case is x-http-method-override, e.g. http://fandry.blogspot.ru/2012/03/x-http-header-method-override-and-rest.html

Answer 2 · 2012-11-14T08:48:52.000Z

Elli does not change the header keys in any way. If a header is not recognized by erlang:decode_packet/3 it is given to the user just as the client sent it.

This is a conscious choice. I want to keep the critical path as clean as I can. If the user wants everything to be a specific case, the user will have to take care of converting.