Fix type warnings in API and helpers.

sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart

Index: sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart b/sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart
index 598371732c81b9b090e019dd309c90b675b4d1f2..bbefd45672785b09784655f19d58112fa014a6b9 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/io/http_headers.dart
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class _HttpHeaders implements HttpHeaders {
     _set(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType.toString());
   }
 
-  void _add(String name, Object value) {
+  void _add(String name, var value) {

[Søren Gjesse, 2013/05/15 12:55:03]

Can't you remove var here? In other places in dart:io where we have dynamic
arguments we just leave the type altogether.

[Johnni Winther, 2013/05/17 12:06:42]

Done.

     var lowerCaseName = name.toLowerCase();
     // TODO(sgjesse): Add immutable state throw HttpException is immutable.
     if (lowerCaseName == HttpHeaders.CONTENT_LENGTH) {
@@ -250,13 +250,13 @@ class _HttpHeaders implements HttpHeaders {
       }
     } else if (lowerCaseName == HttpHeaders.HOST) {
       if (value is String) {
-        int pos = (value as String).indexOf(":");
+        int pos = value.indexOf(":");
         if (pos == -1) {
           _host = value;
           _port = HttpClient.DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT;
         } else {
           if (pos > 0) {
-            _host = (value as String).substring(0, pos);
+            _host = value.substring(0, pos);
           } else {
             _host = null;
           }