From 92ffb924556e43e3037273754ea94aabc72638a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:37:14 +0100
Subject: erts: Increase length of well formed header names from {packet,http}

To ease matching of unrecognized header field names we convert them
from case insensitive to the format Sec-Websocket-Version
with capital letters only first and after hyphens.

Earlier only header names up to 20 characters were converted to this
format due to internal buffer limitation. Raising this limit to 50
is a pragmatic solution for existing long header names such as
Sec-Websocket-Version, while valid header names longer than 50 characters
are not very probable.
---
 erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'erts/doc')

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index b336a135e7..7804a7498e 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -592,7 +592,9 @@ false</pre>
                request, a response, a header or an end of header
                mark. Invalid lines are returned as <c><anno>HttpError</anno></c>.</p>
             <p>Recognized request methods and header fields are returned as atoms.
-               Others are returned as strings.</p>
+               Others are returned as strings. Strings of unrecognized header fields
+	       are formatted with only capital letters first and after hyphen characters
+	       (like <c>"Sec-Websocket-Key"</c>).</p>
             <p>The protocol type <c>http</c> should only be used for
                the first line when a <c><anno>HttpRequest</anno></c> or a
                <c><anno>HttpResponse</anno></c> is expected. The following calls
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