document combination of repeated response headers

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2015-02-20 12:20:18 -06:00
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@@ -347,6 +347,15 @@ So, we can access the headers using any capitalization we want::
>>> r.headers.get('content-type')
'application/json'
It is also special in that the server could have sent the same header multiple
times with different values, but requests combines them so they can be
represented in the dictionary within a single mapping, as per
`RFC 7230 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.2>`_:
> A recipient MAY combine multiple header fields with the same field name
> into one "field-name: field-value" pair, without changing the semantics
> of the message, by appending each subsequent field value to the combined
> field value in order, separated by a comma.
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