doc: update http.header_names normalization info

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jason taylor 1 year ago committed by Victor Julien
parent eb52e337da
commit ca9b29c2d0

@ -107,12 +107,16 @@ If there are multiple values for the same header name, they are concatenated
with a comma and space (", ") between each value. More information can be
found in RFC 2616 `<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.html#section-4.2>`_
In the example below, notice that the User-Agent header, regardless of the
letter casing is evaluated as the same header. The normalized header evaluation
leads to the concatenated header values as described in the RFC above.
Example Duplicate HTTP Header::
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: suricata.io
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
User-Agent: Chrome/121.0.0
User-agent: Chrome/121.0.0
.. container:: example-rule
@ -1211,6 +1215,9 @@ after ``User-Agent`` but not necessarily directly after.
.. note:: ``http.header_names`` starts with a \\r\\n and ends with an extra \\r\\n.
.. note:: ``http.header_names`` can have additional formatting/normalization applied
to buffer contents, see :ref:`http.normalization` for additional details.
.. _http.protocol:
http.protocol

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