From 466575bee60d2575dc5fb69c6e19e1fab3fd6803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Grandi <a.grandi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:14:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Lowercase the input

---
 rest_framework/fields.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index d19231a2f..1731c5f24 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ class IPAddressField(CharField):
     }
 
     def __init__(self, protocol='both', unpack_ipv4=False, **kwargs):
-        self.protocol = protocol
+        self.protocol = protocol.lower()
         self.unpack_ipv4 = unpack_ipv4
         super(IPAddressField, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         validators, error_message = ip_address_validators(protocol, unpack_ipv4)