headers converted to lowercase

[spiderworm]

I've noticed that adding headers to requests using request-json clientside (perhaps via node as well) causes the headers name to be converted to lowercase, i.e. adding the following header:

{ Authorization: Bearer ${token} }

... results in the following header:

authorization: Bearer ${token}

Not sure if this is an issue with services, but it's disconcerting that request-json appears to be modifying my headers.

[frankrousseau]

Thank you @spiderworm for reporting. I will look for good practice, then I will fix this if needed.

[ethzero]

Hi there,
I'm going to add a 'me too' in that I found that the following GET url fails:
https://www.edsm.net/api-commander-v1/get-ranks?commanderName=ethzero

Because of the same forcing-of-lowercase issue I believe.

https://www.edsm.net/api-commander-v1/get-ranks?commandername=ethzero

[frankrousseau]

It looks to be more related to the Node.js platform. I will dig into it to see if some options can be set to remove this automatic lowercase transforming.

[frankrousseau]

But FYI, servers should not be case sensitive when dealing with headers.

[frankrousseau]

I made some research. Unfortunately, Node.js low-level client lower-case every headers keys. It cannot be fixed without complex development.

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_message_headers

[spiderworm]

In my situation, the lower-case headers did not cause an issue on the server. The real issue I had was caused by Chrome's Developer Tools, which has trouble showing POST data apparently when the header is 'content-type' rather than 'Content-Type', so this is something that Google can fix. Regardless, I do hope Node changes this behavior at some point, because I still do not think that it should be mucking around with the header names I provide.