[racket-dev] [plt] Push #26024: master branch updated

Why not normalize this at the other end (ie, normalize the provided
string as well as the actual method) so that "GET" as well as "get"
will work?

Sam

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM,  <jay at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> jay has updated `master' from aa5f2e7875 to c07ff948ee.
>   http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/aa5f2e7875..c07ff948ee
>
> =====[ One Commit ]=====================================================
> Directory summary:
>  100.0% collects/web-server/scribblings/
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> c07ff94 Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org> 2013-01-04 05:44
> :
> | Fixes PR13406
> :
>   M collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl | 11 +++++++++--
>
> =====[ Overall Diff ]===================================================
>
> collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> --- OLD/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> +++ NEW/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ or else the filesystem server will never see the requests.
>   [maybe-method
>    code:blank
>    (code:line #:method method)]
> + [method pat]
>   [maybe-else-clause
>    code:blank
>    [else else-fun]])
> @@ -137,9 +138,15 @@ the @racket[dispatch-fun] given as its first argument.
>  @racket[(next-dispatcher)] to signal to the Web Server that this
>  dispatcher does not apply.
>
> - If any @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests
> -without methods and GET methods.
> + The @racket[_method] syntax is used in a @racket[match] expression to
> +match the @racket[request-method] part of the incoming request
> +object. However, since HTTP allows methods to use any case, the byte
> +string from @racket[request-method] is normalized to a lower-case
> +string. Thus, valid patterns are things like: @racket["get"],
> + at racket["post"], @racket["head"], @racket[(or "get" "post")], etc.
>
> + If @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests
> +without methods and GET methods.
>  }
>
>  @defform[