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