10388 2010-08-17 19:03:09 +0000 Canonical case for GET/POST/PUT/DELETE should be lowercase instead of uppercase, to match browsers 2010-10-04 14:28:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#form-submission-0 P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian annevk ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 37579 0 contributor 2010-08-17 19:03:09 +0000 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 37968 1 ayg 2010-08-26 21:07:21 +0000 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. 37986 2 annevk 2010-08-27 07:14:01 +0000 (Somewhat unfortunate as HTTP methods are case-sensitive.) 39832 3 ian 2010-09-28 23:19:14 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 39833 4 contributor 2010-09-28 23:20:35 +0000 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