Does the method argument in AJAX need to be upper case?

Question

Well basically what the title says, when making an AJAX request with JavaScript. Does the method, i.e. GET / POST, need to be upper case? Thanks in advance.

Edit: Even a yes or no will suffice.

Answer 1

You can read about it at http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-open-method

I quote

When the open(method, url, async, user, password) method is invoked, the user agent must run these steps (unless otherwise indicated):
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3. If method is a case-insensitive match for CONNECT, DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, POST, PUT, TRACE, or TRACK subtract 0x20 from each byte in the range 0x61 (ASCII a) to 0x7A (ASCII z).
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which means it will automatically convert it to upper case on its own ..

So it seems to have some significance (preferring uppercase), and i would suggest you use uppercase just to avoid implementation flaws (improbable).