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Bug 10388 - Canonical case for GET/POST/PUT/DELETE should be lowercase instead of uppercase, to match browsers
Summary: Canonical case for GET/POST/PUT/DELETE should be lowercase instead of upperca...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-08-17 19:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:28 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-08-17 19:03:09 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#form-submission-0

Comment:
Should the canonical case for GET/POST/PUT/DELETE be lowercase instead of
uppercase?  IE (8 and 9PP4) seem to treat it as lowercase, and they're the
only ones that canonicalize case at all here, as far as I can tell.  This
alerts "get" in IE8/9PP4 and "GeT" in all other browsers: <!doctype
html><script>var el = document.createElement("form");
el.setAttribute("method", "GeT"); alert(el.method);</script>

Posted from: 68.175.61.233
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2010-08-26 21:07:21 UTC 
In Firefox nightlies it now alerts "get", matching IE.  Also note that every single other enumerated attribute in all of HTML (at least among those limited to only known values) has lowercase canonical values.
Comment 2 Anne 2010-08-27 07:14:01 UTC 
(Somewhat unfortunate as HTTP methods are case-sensitive.)
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-28 23:19:14 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 4 contributor 2010-09-28 23:20:35 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5540.
Check-in comment: Make the .method IDL attribute return lowercase values.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5539&to=5540