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This commit documents how duplicate HTTP headers are handled.

PR-URL: #3810
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
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bengl authored and jasnell committed Dec 17, 2015
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// accept: '*/*' }
console.log(request.headers);

Duplicates in raw headers are handled in the following ways, depending on the
header name:

* Duplicates of `age`, `authorization`, `content-length`, `content-type`,
`etag`, `expires`, `from`, `host`, `if-modified-since`, `if-unmodified-since`,
`last-modified`, `location`, `max-forwards`, `proxy-authorization`, `referer`,
`retry-after`, or `user-agent` are discarded.
* `set-cookie` is always an array. Duplicates are added to the array.
* For all other headers, the values are joined together with ', '.

### message.httpVersion

In case of server request, the HTTP version sent by the client. In the case of
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