R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Quoting http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-4.2:

  Field names are case-insensitive.

Which is only logical, since they are modeled on email headers, and email 
header names are case insensitive.  So, the server in question is broken, yes, 
but that doesn't mean we can't provide a facility to allow Python to 
inter-operate with it.  Email, for example, preserves the case of the field 
names it parses or receives from the application program, but otherwise treats 
them case-insensitively.  However, since the current code coerces to title 
case, we have to provide this feature as a switchable facility defaulting to 
the current behavior, for backward compatibility reasons.

And someone needs to write a patch....

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