[Dancer-users] case insensitive param keys

[P Kishor]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Mike Schroeder <mike at donor.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:07 AM, sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm wondering about are two things:
>> 1. What does the RFC(s) say?
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.3
> Certain parts of the URI have to be lowercased, or preserve case
> sensitivity, but in my searching so far, I haven't found anything explicitly
> about the param key names.  This quote from the RFC seems to imply it is
> discretionary:
>
> Some schemes define additional subcomponents that consist of
> case-insensitive data, giving an implicit license to normalizers to convert
> this data to a common case (e.g., all lowercase).
>
>
>>
>> 2. How are other frameworks handling it?
>
> Not directly related to params, catalyst is case insensitive by default:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7012/lib/Catalyst.pm#CASE_SENSITIVITY
>
> I believe that webgui.org is case-insensitive
> Ruby on Rails has decided to be case sensitive, but the maintainer has not
> told anyone why he decided that:
>
> https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/393-routes-are-case-sensitive
>
> URI should be case sensitive by default. It might be nice to give option to
> make them insenitive though.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Without spending a lot more time researching, it would seem like the correct
> approach is:
> 1) case sensitive by default
> 2) case insensitive by config

+1

> My two cents.
> Mike.
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