[aerogear-dev] [android] Response headers case sensitivity

[Bruno Oliveira]

Currently, I don't care.


- Bruno

On Nov 21, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

>> At the moment our Android library is sensitive to response header cases. What that means is that if a web server returns auth-token: xxxx-xxxx instead of Auth-Token: xxxx-xxxx our RestAuthenticationModule fails to >find the token.
> 
> If the web server is returning a different token than the default token, I do not see why it should find it.  I understand it is SUPPOSED to be case insensitive, but as the blog post and you mention, people assume it isn't.  Unless the webserver is being a jerk and randomly changing the case of the headers it is sending out, I don't think this is a "big deal".
> 
> I'm not saying we SHOULDN'T care, just I care less about this than say, sucking in lots of PRs and getting docs and demos out.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marko Strukelj" <marko.strukelj at gmail.com>
> To: "AeroGear Developer Mailing List" <aerogear-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:33:10 AM
> Subject: [aerogear-dev] [android] Response headers case sensitivity
> 
> 
> 
> I found this interesting issue on the topic: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1954 
> HTTP Spec indeed says that headers are case-insensitive. But the whole world seems to go towards a more practical approach of case sensitivity, as it’s simpler to lookup headers that way. 
> 
> Incidentally, I discovered this while using an integration testing module I’ve been working on: https://github.com/mstruk/exploratorium-android-rest (it's a work in progress). 
> 
> The rationale is that really testing the code means going through as much of a real runtime as possible - like using Arquillian ... 
> 
> At first I thought it was HttpClient, and HttpURLConnection APIs lowercasing the headers. Turned out it was the embedded HTTP server. 
> 
> The question in this case is do we call this an issue or is this something we don’t care about. 
> 
> 
> - marko 
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