nginx enforces case-sensitivity incorrectly

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:21:48PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> According to RFC 2616, the "HTTP" string literal in the HTTP-Version
> part of the Request-Line is case-insensitive.  (Rationale: Section 2.1
> says quoted string literals are case-insensitive unless otherwise
> stated, and section 3.1 says nothing about case.)

It's to be changed in HTTPbis, see:
 
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/1
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2002JulSep/0066.html

Maxim Dounin