The programmer's input is not a string. It is a match pattern, so you can use 'or', '_', etc.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > Why not normalize this at the other end (ie, normalize the provided > string as well as the actual method) so that "GET" as well as "get" > will work? > > Sam > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM, <j...@racket-lang.org> wrote: > > jay has updated `master' from aa5f2e7875 to c07ff948ee. > > http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/aa5f2e7875..c07ff948ee > > > > =====[ One Commit ]===================================================== > > Directory summary: > > 100.0% collects/web-server/scribblings/ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > c07ff94 Jay McCarthy <j...@racket-lang.org> 2013-01-04 05:44 > > : > > | Fixes PR13406 > > : > > M collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl | 11 +++++++++-- > > > > =====[ Overall Diff ]=================================================== > > > > collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > --- OLD/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl > > +++ NEW/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl > > @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ or else the filesystem server will never see the > requests. > > [maybe-method > > code:blank > > (code:line #:method method)] > > + [method pat] > > [maybe-else-clause > > code:blank > > [else else-fun]]) > > @@ -137,9 +138,15 @@ the @racket[dispatch-fun] given as its first > argument. > > @racket[(next-dispatcher)] to signal to the Web Server that this > > dispatcher does not apply. > > > > - If any @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests > > -without methods and GET methods. > > + The @racket[_method] syntax is used in a @racket[match] expression to > > +match the @racket[request-method] part of the incoming request > > +object. However, since HTTP allows methods to use any case, the byte > > +string from @racket[request-method] is normalized to a lower-case > > +string. Thus, valid patterns are things like: @racket["get"], > > +@racket["post"], @racket["head"], @racket[(or "get" "post")], etc. > > > > + If @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests > > +without methods and GET methods. > > } > > > > @defform[ >
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