You shouldn't rely on case in HTTP header names. HTTP header names are case
insensitive.
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David Holscher
"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you
yourself and no one else has made it." - Sophocles, Ajax, c. 450 B.C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Au [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat 3.x vs 4.0 - HTTP header names
>
>
> I just noticed that in Tomcat 4.0, the HTTP header names as
> obtained by
> request.getHeaderNames() are all lower case, even if the
> original header
> names being sent are all upper case or mixed case.
>
> It seems to me the Tomcat 4.0 is converting the header names
> to all lower case.
> Tomcat 3.x perserver the original case of the header names.
>
> Is this normal? Is there anyway to keep the original case of
> the header names?
>
> Bill
>
