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Manikandan J
Manikandan J

Reputation: 164

upper case converted to lower case when reading response HEADER in node/express js with httpclients axios and request-promise

In my application(node/express), I have to call a third party server to read some data. The response of the third party server will have custom header sessionId - Id being capitalized as per the document. But in my application, the custom header key is changed to sessionid - id in lowercase. I tested this behaviour in axios and request-promise http client.

Why upper case in header key is converted to lowercase in node/express?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 9691

Answers (1)

O. Jones
O. Jones

Reputation: 108776

Express's Request object has a case-insensitive .get('header-name') method to look up headers. The way the Express team implemented the case-insensitivity is apparently to downcase the header names in when they store them.

Express does case-insensitive matching here to comply with RFC2616's specification that header names are to be case-insensitive. That means your third party server is free to return a header named sessionId, sessionid, SeSsIoNiD or whatever, and it still means sessionid to your own app. (RFC2616 is the formal specification for the HTTP protocol.)

Upvotes: 12

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