[Twisted-Python] stupid case sensitive web clients
Matthias Urlichs
smurf at noris.de
Fri Nov 15 05:22:49 MST 2002
Hi,
Hamish Lawson:
> > > I have a stupid device that's talking to a Twisted web server that
> > > demands HTTP headers to be capitalized Like-This
Ouch. What does the manufacturer of said stupid device have to say about
this?
> Nevertheless the headers are almost always presented in the HTTP spec and
> other reference materials in the style 'Content-Type'. I would guess
> therefore that this style will be the one most widely adopted by those
> broken clients that expect a particular capitalisation.
>
Personally, I'd rather send them as cOnTeNt-tYpE on principle, so that
those idiot devices / programs actually get _fixed_ sometime. :-/
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