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Id: 30606
Status: resolved
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Queue: libwww-perl
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Requestors: SREZIC [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 5.808
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  Fri Nov 09 05:05:22 2007 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Document $TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE in HTTP::Headers
The subject says it all. This should probably go into the documentation of the header() method, were the replacement of _ -> - is described. I think best practice would be to localize the variable and to document it so, i.e. local $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE = 0; Regards, Slaven
  Thu Apr 03 12:34:59 2008 GAAS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The fact that it's not documented is intentional. The 5.800 "release notes" says: HTTP::Headers now special case field names that start with a ':'. This is used as an escape mechanism when you need the header names to not go through canonicalization. It means that you can force LWP to use a specific casing and even underscores in header names. The ugly $TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE global has been undocumented as a result of this.
  Thu Apr 03 12:35:09 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Apr 04 17:04:01 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Thanks. Regards, Slaven
  Fri Apr 04 17:04:03 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'