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"snake case your header names (yes this is bad form) before presenting them to your code as the list of header names."

From RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", §4.2, "Message Headers": Each header field consists of a name followed by a colon (":") and the field value. Field names are case-insensitive.

"Use content MD5 at both ends of the conversation." Yeah.. no: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232030

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