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-[[broken_clients]]
-== Dealing with broken clients
-
-There exists a very large number of implementations for the
-HTTP protocol. Most widely used clients, like browsers,
-follow the standard quite well, but others may not. In
-particular custom enterprise clients tend to be very badly
-written.
-
-Cowboy tries to follow the standard as much as possible,
-but is not trying to handle every possible special cases.
-Instead Cowboy focuses on the cases reported in the wild,
-on the public Web.
-
-That means clients that ignore the HTTP standard completely
-may fail to understand Cowboy's responses. There are of
-course workarounds. This chapter aims to cover them.
-
-=== Lowercase headers
-
-Cowboy converts all headers it receives to lowercase, and
-similarly sends back headers all in lowercase. Some broken
-HTTP clients have issues with that.
-
-A simple way to solve this is to create an `onresponse` hook
-that will format the header names with the expected case.
-
-[source,erlang]
-----
-capitalize_hook(Status, Headers, Body, Req) ->
- Headers2 = [{cowboy_bstr:capitalize_token(N), V}
- || {N, V} <- Headers],
- cowboy_req:reply(Status, Headers2, Body, Req).
-----
-
-Note that HTTP/2 clients do not have that particular issue
-because the specification explicitly says all headers are
-lowercase, unlike HTTP which allows any case but treats
-them as case insensitive.
-
-=== Camel-case headers
-
-Sometimes it is desirable to keep the actual case used by
-clients, for example when acting as a proxy between two broken
-implementations. There is no easy solution for this other than
-forking the project and editing the `cowboy_protocol` file
-directly.
-
-// @todo This currently has no equivalent in Cowboy 2.0.
-// === Chunked transfer-encoding
-//
-// Sometimes an HTTP client advertises itself as HTTP/1.1 but
-// does not support chunked transfer-encoding. This is invalid
-// behavior, as HTTP/1.1 clients are required to support it.
-//
-// A simple workaround exists in these cases. By changing the
-// Req object response state to `waiting_stream`, Cowboy will
-// understand that it must use the identity transfer-encoding
-// when replying, just like if it was an HTTP/1.0 client.
-//
-// [source,erlang]
-// Req2 = cowboy_req:set(resp_state, waiting_stream).