Question

From the source code of net/http. The definition of http.Header is map[string][]string. Right?

But why go run below code, I get the result:

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func main() {
    var header = make(http.Header)
    header.Add("hello", "world")
    header.Add("hello", "anotherworld")
    var t = []string {"a", "b"}
    fmt.Printf("%d\n", len(header["hello"]))
    fmt.Print(len(t))
}

Answer 1

if you try

fmt.Println(header)

you’ll notice that the key has been capitalized. This is actually noted in the documentation of net/http.

// HTTP defines that header names are case-insensitive.
// The request parser implements this by canonicalizing the
// name, making the first character and any characters
// following a hyphen uppercase and the rest lowercase.

This can be found in the comment on the field Header of type Request.

http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request

Comment should probably be moved though..