[PATCH] Normalizing the Host: header

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4D5D1AC9.3000507 at uplex.de>, Nils Goroll writes:

>we were discussion this on VUG3: comparisons on the Host: header should be case
>insensitive. Reflecting on this, I think that normalizing the Host: header in
>Varnish would actually be the better idea and should avoid common errors.

What a great idea for a VMOD :-)

But this is exactly the kind of needless text-processing we should avoid
if we want to be the fastest cache on the planet:  a regexp or a strncasecmp()
is not measurably slower than their case-sensitive parallels and if you
don't need to inspect the host-header at all, case-folding it is pure
wasted effort.

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