Open Radar

 
Actual Product
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Mac OS X SDK

Summary
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NSMutableURLRequest does not preserve case of HTTP header fields. It should.

Steps to Reproduce
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{
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com"]];
    [request setValue:@"MyValue" forHTTPHeaderField:@"MyField"];
    NSLog(@"result: %@", [request allHTTPHeaderFields]);
}

Expected Results
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result: {
    MyField = MyValue;
}

Actual Results
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result: {
    Myfield = MyValue;
}

Notice the difference: MyField has lost its capital 'F'

Regression
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Happens in Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.3, presumably all other versions too.

Notes
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The documentation states "In keeping with the HTTP RFC, HTTP header field names are case-insensitive." Unfortunately, not all HTTP implementations are RFC compliant and this causes some servers not to handle requests properly. This is a huge problem when you don't have control on the server you are trying to communicate with. A new
- (void)setValue:(NSString *)value forHTTPHeaderField:(NSString *)field caseSensitive:(BOOL)caseSensitive
method on NSMutableURLRequest would be very welcome.

The following NSMutableURLRequest methods are also affected by this problem:
- (void)setAllHTTPHeaderFields:(NSDictionary *)headerFields
- (void)addValue:(NSString *)value forHTTPHeaderField:(NSString *)field