Hi,
I noticed the Tomcat implementation of HttpServletRequest.getHeaderNames()
returns all header names in lower case. Is there any possibility to get them
with their original case?
Thanks,
Alexander
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> Hi,
>
> I noticed the Tomcat implementation of HttpServletRequest.getHeaderNames()
> returns all header names in lower case. Is there any possibility to get them
> with their original case?
Nobody having any idea about this behaviour?
Thanks again,
Alexander
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>> I noticed the Tomcat implementation of HttpServletRequest.getHeaderNames()
>> returns all header names in lower case. Is there any possibility to
>> get them with their original case?
>
> Want to give us a hint about the Tomcat version you're looking at?
>
> - Chuck
I noticed it on Tomcat 5
> I can't answer your question but I'm curious: why is a HTTP header
> name's case of any importance to you?
>
> RFC 2616 defines field names as case-insensitive. Relying on a header
> field's case therefore seems at least non-portable to me.
> Maybe you should elaborate what problem you are real
> The HTTP spec (HTTP/1.1, section 4.2:
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html) states that HTTP
> header field names are case-insensitive.
>
> You should not be relying on a particular caseification (?) of header
> fields.
>
> Are you just interested in what the client sent?
>
> "apparently"? Hm, in this case I'd double-check whether whatever problem
> you're having is indeed caused by the case of the header names. Just to
> make sure you're not barking at the wrong tree.
> If the receiving party is really relying on the case of header names,
> I'd ask them to fix their
> definitiv möglicherweise?
> Martin
Most likely ;), but what should the snippet tell me?
Alexander
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> Just to nitpick, there is no "proper capitalisation", since the RFC says
> that headers are case-insensitive.
I know, I referred to "proper" as in what the target machine expects.
> Apart from that, I would offer the following subjective advice, in the
> form of suggestions :
> - it sounds l
> Is it only certain headers that are a problem, or is it all headers?
>
> If it's only some, you could specifically code these such that they are
> handled with the desired capitalization, and pass everything else through.
>
> Or, if there are some rules to the capitalization requirements (like
