- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:18:48 -0700
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CABkgnnUG_yCVyRCNvJ5GhyHjLzn44buyaHhPfiMd-CVwyBwwLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 3 July 2013 10:43, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote: > Need to clarify whether or not HTTP methods in 2.0 > are case sensitive or not. HTTP/2.0 is actually silent on the issue. And I believe that it can remain so. HTTP/2.0 makes header field names lowercase (and mandates that), which is fine because that has a performance and compression advantage. A similar argument could be made for any header field value, :method not being particularly special in this regard. In this specific case, if we were to mandate a particular case, I'd advocate uppercase. I believe that some code breaks if it receives a 'get' instead of a 'GET', so uppercase would have to be the choice.
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