Headers change from original case to all lowercase during cy.request()

Current behavior:

I use the “Authorization” header to authenticate a request but when I post a html form in cypress it changes all the HTTP headers to lowercase, so “Authorization” becomes “authorization” which is refused at backend.

so this is my browser this is cypress

Desired behavior:

I’d like the request headers to keep their capital letter because it causes issues😋

Steps to reproduce:

Make a small php file with a html form, and when submit print_r(getallheaders());

Versions

Cypress V3.1.2 NodeJS v8.11.4 Npm v6.4.1

I use Chrome v70.0.3538.110 on MacOS Mojave v10.14.1

[mjhenkes]

The http spec specifies that headers should be case insensitive, as such we’re closing this issue.

Each header field consists of a case-insensitive field name followed by a colon ("😊, optional leading whitespace, the field value, and optional trailing whitespace.

[jennifer-shehane]

Hey @Robpizza, the HTTP spec does define header fields as case insensitive - so servers should be case insensitive as well.

Each header field consists of a case-insensitive field name followed by a colon ("😊, optional leading whitespace, the field value, and optional trailing whitespace.

But, I understand that not all servers may choose to behave in this way. I don’t think it would be unreasonable to pass along the Header fields with the casings as they were originally requested, but as you said, I’m not sure how this is implemented.