Describe the issue/error/question
When putting is a response header “Validation-Token” the webhook is replying back with “validation-token” in lowercase. The service I am responding to needs this to be cased exactly and because it’s lower case, it’s not working
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I would expect the response headers to have “Validation-Token” not "validation-tooken
Information on your n8n setup
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n8n version: Version 1.6.0 (1.6.0)
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Database you’re using (default: SQLite): SQlite
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Running n8n with the execution process [own(default), main]: own
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Running n8n via [Docker, npm, n8n.cloud, desktop app]: desktop app
Hi @probable, welcome to the community!
I am very sorry to hear you’re having trouble. Iirc this is intentional behaviour allowing users to overwrite headers n8n would otherwise send by default. Perhaps @RicardoE105 can confirm the exact details around this and might know of a suitable workaround?
That said, HTTP header names are case-insensitive by specification (this is for example described here: An HTTP header consists of its case-insensitive name). A lot of clients auto-convert header names these days accordingly, I believe this is in preparation for HTTP/2 (discussed here: HTTP/2 encodes HTTP headers as lowercase. HTTP/1.1 headers were already case-insensitive, but not everbody adhered to that rule.).
So you might also want to reach out to the organization requiring a specific letter case for your header and ask them to change this behavior.
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It actually turned out to be something completely different and I misread the documentation of the API tha I was ingesting and that I needed for N8N to reply back with a validation-token that they send on the request.
