<div dir="ltr">The programmer's input is not a string. It is a match pattern, so you can use 'or', '_', etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <<a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM, <<a href="mailto:jay@racket-lang.org">jay@racket-lang.org</a>> wrote: > jay has updated `master' from aa5f2e7875 to c07ff948ee. > <a href="http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/aa5f2e7875..c07ff948ee" target="_blank">http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/aa5f2e7875..c07ff948ee</a> > > =====[ One Commit ]===================================================== > Directory summary: > 100.0% collects/web-server/scribblings/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > c07ff94 Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@racket-lang.org">jay@racket-lang.org</a>> 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"], > +@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[ </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>