kennethreitz/requests — Issue #398: Header capitalization causes problems with some web servers
Author: foxx
Created: 2012-01-29 22:34:19+00:00
State: open

As raised here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue12455

Although your documentation states:
"The dictionary is special, though: it’s made just for HTTP headers. According to RFC 2616 , HTTP Headers are case-insensitive"

It should be noted that many web servers do not conform to this standard, and enforcing it makes some requests break.

Therefore, I'd like to request a patch on this library which allows the user to disable the automatic header capitalization (i.e. just keep the headers as it received them).

Cal