From 313365cd5c313044247ef7b20fdffd230f4a07d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trustin Lee <t@motd.kr>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:51:13 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NPE raised by HttpHeaders.equalsIgnoreCases() when one of
 its arguments is null

---
 .../main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpHeaders.java    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpHeaders.java b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpHeaders.java
index 9001a4223b38..7ba9264109f5 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpHeaders.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpHeaders.java
@@ -1161,6 +1161,10 @@ public static boolean equalsIgnoreCase(CharSequence name1, CharSequence name2) {
             return true;
         }
 
+        if (name1 == null || name2 == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
         int nameLen = name1.length();
         if (nameLen != name2.length()) {
             return false;