From be6ddb74aa9cd3f67ce04bfbecb799b181602d54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 22:52:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] HTTP method should be case sensitive (RFC-2616 Sec. 5.1.1)

---
 .../src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMethod.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMethod.java b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMethod.java
index 6a97242a56..166df645c4 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMethod.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMethod.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public class HttpMethod implements Comparable<HttpMethod> {
             throw new NullPointerException("name");
         }
 
-        name = name.trim().toUpperCase();
+        name = name.trim();
         if (name.length() == 0) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty name");
         }
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public class HttpMethod implements Comparable<HttpMethod> {
             throw new NullPointerException("name");
         }
 
-        name = name.trim().toUpperCase();
+        name = name.trim();
         if (name.length() == 0) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty name");
         }