Re: Letter-case conversions in network protocols

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> Of course, code can still be broken if people explicitly do its own
> thing with `downcase', etc. instead of using the case-folding string
> APIs, but that's sort of an anti-pattern, anyway.

But code does this sort of thing -- for instance, Message allows headers
to be specified in various ways, but will run the header names trough
`capitalize'.

So this isn't just about doing comparisons, but separating out text
transformations that are done according to a protocol specification
(i.e., octets that happen to be ASCII) vs. the normal DWIM text
transformations.

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