Spent some time tripping today over HTTP headers being added to the Request object in "proper" header case (all components title cased) but finding that the resulting header dictionary object had the headers keyed with first component only capitalized.
## http://paste.pound-python.org/show/3273/ >>> import urllib2 >>> req = urllib2.Request("http://www.google.com";) >>> req.add_header('User-Agent', 'bob') >>> req.add_header('X-Poopy', 'Big Poopy') >>> req.get_header('User-Agent') >>> req.get_header('X-Poopy') >>> req.headers {'X-poopy': 'Big Poopy', 'User-agent': 'bob'} >>> req.get_header('User-agent') 'bob' >>> req.get_header('X-poopy') 'Big Poopy' I'd expect the header put in as "User-Agent" to be stored and retrieved using the same case but this is clearly not the case. HTTP header names are case-insensitive so it matters not how they're sent but programmatically it would seem like we'd want to ensure that the specified input is preserved. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2 This is observed under Python 2.6.1 and 2.6.6 on OS X and Linux. Am I misunderstanding how to use these functions? Do I need to adjust my expectations? :) -- Darren Spruell phatbuck...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
