From: Christian Folini <ruby-forum@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T20:49:55+09:00
Subject: Net::HTTP and the need for all-capital http header names

Hi there

Net:HTTP will downcase http headers like FOO-BAR to Foo-Bar
upon initialization and upon writing to the socket. While
this behaviour is consistent with most user agents and servers
it is the wrong approach for a small application I am developping.
In fact I want to reissue requests _as is_ and as there are
all-capital header names out there in the wild, I want to
reissue those as all-capitals too.

Now I did a hack that is not particularly elegant, but works
for the time being.

require "net/http"

class Net::HTTP::Get
  # Redefinition of initialize_http_header
  # The original method does a downcase on the header name
  # We need it untouched however as we want to repeat a request as is
  def initialize_http_header(initheader)
    @header = {}
    return unless initheader
    initheader.each do |key, value|
      warn "net/http: warning: duplicated HTTP header: #{key}" if
key?(key) and $VERBOSE
      @header[key] = [value.strip]
    end
  end

end

class Net::HTTP::Post
  # Redefinition of initialize_http_header
  # The original method does a downcase on the header name
  # We need it untouched however as we want to repeat a request as is
  def initialize_http_header(initheader)
    @header = {}
    return unless initheader
    initheader.each do |key, value|
      warn "net/http: warning: duplicated HTTP header: #{key}" if
key?(key) and $VERBOSE
      @header[key] = [value.strip]
    end
  end

end

class Net::HTTPGenericRequest
  # Redefinition of write_header
  # The original one does a downcase on the header name
  # We need it untouched however as we want to repeat a request as is
  # Furthermore there is a duplication of certain headers
  # introduced by our removal of the downcasing in
initialize_http_header
  def write_header(sock, ver, path)
    buf = "#{@method} #{path} HTTP/#{ver}\r\n"
    each do |k,v|
      unless k == "host" or k == "content-length" or k == "content-type"
        # due to our removal of the downcase code, some headers were
reintroduced by
        # the module. We ignore these.
        buf << "#{k}: #{v}\r\n"
      else
      end
    end
    buf << "\r\n"
    sock.write buf
  end
end


Obviously, I would perfer to use a better approach, but I am far
from being a ruby wizard and I do not know much about network
sockets programming. So is there any resource I could be pointed
to or is there an alternative way to use Net::HTTP

regs,

Christian

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