net/http: document CanonicalHeaderKey from Header

And remove some unnecessary textproto references. (The net/http
package's CanonicalHeaderKey just calls textproto's
CanonicalMIMEHeaderKey)

Fixes #28894

Change-Id: Ibd277893a168368c593147a2677ad6130870cb88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/152157
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/net/http/header.go b/src/net/http/header.go
index 6cf13e5c44..b699e7ef8f 100644
--- a/src/net/http/header.go
+++ b/src/net/http/header.go
@@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ import (
 )
 
 // A Header represents the key-value pairs in an HTTP header.
+//
+// The keys should be in canonical form, as returned by
+// CanonicalHeaderKey.
 type Header map[string][]string
 
 // Add adds the key, value pair to the header.
 // It appends to any existing values associated with key.
 // The key is case insensitive; it is canonicalized by
-// textproto.CanonicalMIMEHeaderKey.
+// CanonicalHeaderKey.
 func (h Header) Add(key, value string) {
 	textproto.MIMEHeader(h).Add(key, value)
 }
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ func (h Header) has(key string) bool {
 
 // Del deletes the values associated with key.
 // The key is case insensitive; it is canonicalized by
-// textproto.CanonicalMIMEHeaderKey.
+// CanonicalHeaderKey.
 func (h Header) Del(key string) {
 	textproto.MIMEHeader(h).Del(key)
 }