Are HTTP headers case-sensitive?

Question

In a blog post I use the following PHP to set the content-type of a response:

header(\'content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8\');

I

Answer 1

They are not case sensitive. In fact NodeJS web server explicitly converts them to lower-case, before making them available in the request object.

It's important to note here that all headers are represented in lower-case only, regardless of how the client actually sent them. This simplifies the task of parsing headers for whatever purpose.