Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules ofdraft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?

Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com> Wed, 16 February 2011 13:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules ofdraft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
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On 02/16/2011 02:04 AM, Remy Lebeau wrote:
> Since the cookie has a Version=1 attribute, it is an RFC 2109 cookie,
> and RFC 2109 allows Netscape-style date/time formatting:
> 
>    Wdy, DD-Mon-YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT

Not that any of this is in any way relevant, but, no it doesn't. RFC
2109 doesn't allow the Expires attribute at all. A cookie that contains
both "Version=1" and "Expires=..." does not conform to *any* spec.

-- Dan