refactor: drop space-to-underscore replacement in header names

internal/phpheaders/phpheaders.go

@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ var CommonRequestHeaders = map[string]string{
 // Cache up to 256 uncommon headers
 // This is ~2.5x faster than converting the header each time
 var (
-	headerKeyCache     = otter.Must[string, string](&otter.Options[string, string]{MaximumSize: 256})
-	headerNameReplacer = strings.NewReplacer(" ", "_", "-", "_")
+	headerKeyCache     = otter.Must(&otter.Options[string, string]{MaximumSize: 256})
+	headerNameReplacer = strings.NewReplacer("-", "_")
 	loader             = otter.LoaderFunc[string, string](func(_ context.Context, key string) (string, error) {
 		return "HTTP_" + headerNameReplacer.Replace(strings.ToUpper(key)) + "\x00", nil
 	})

internal/phpheaders/phpheaders_test.go

@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 package phpheaders
 
 import (
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestAllCommonHeadersAreCorrect(t *testing.T) {
@@ -20,3 +25,25 @@ func TestAllCommonHeadersAreCorrect(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Contains(t, fakeRequest.Header, header, "header is not correctly capitalized: "+header)
 	}
 }
+
+// Go's net/http server rejects header names containing spaces with a 400 response
+// before the request reaches the handler, so headerNameReplacer does not need to
+// translate spaces to underscores.
+func TestHeaderWithSpaceIsRejectedByNetHTTP(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		t.Errorf("handler should not be reached, got headers: %v", r.Header)
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(ts.Close)
+
+	conn, err := net.Dial("tcp", strings.TrimPrefix(ts.URL, "http://"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { require.NoError(t, conn.Close()) })
+
+	_, err = conn.Write([]byte("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\nBad Header: x\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	resp, err := io.ReadAll(conn)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(resp), "400 Bad Request")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(resp), "invalid header name")
+}