From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T15:28:50+09:00
Subject: Re: BUG: small glitch in Net:HTTP when adding custom headers

Hi,

  In mail "BUG: small glitch in Net:HTTP when adding custom headers"
    Michal <lists+rubytalk@box.cz> wrote:

> today I was toying a bit with Net:HTTP and found small glitch
> in HTTPGenericRequest#initialize ... line 1106 reads:
> 
> @header[key] = v.strip
> 
> which fails on NoMethodError when value of added header is not
> String (it was triggered by Fixnum in my case).

I think this is the right behavior.
An header field is a String, you should provide a String.
Instant #to_s call will hide some kind of bugs (e.g. nil).

Regards,
Minero Aoki