In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 31 Dec 2003,
Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The latest LWP::Simple version (v1.38 from libwww-perl 5.76) does
> not understand 'location' with lower-case first letter either.
> The patch below (against v1.38) fixes LWP::Simple to accept a
> lowercase 'location' header.
> In the mindset of 'Be liberal in what you receive, and conservative
> in what you send', is this worth adding to libwww-perl?
Sounds like a good idea to me. HTTP/1.1 actually specifies that
header field names are case-insensitive:
4.2 Message Headers
HTTP header fields, which include general-header (section 4.5),
request-header (section 5.3), response-header (section 6.2), and
entity-header (section 7.1) fields, follow the same generic format as
that given in Section 3.1 of RFC 822 [9]. Each header field consists
of a name followed by a colon (":") and the field value. Field names
are case-insensitive. The field value MAY be preceded by any amount
of LWS, though a single SP is preferred. Header fields can be
extended over multiple lines by preceding each extra line with at
least one SP or HT. Applications ought to follow "common form", where
one is known or indicated, when generating HTTP constructs, since
there might exist some implementations that fail to accept anything
-ccwf
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