Re: [http-state] Date parsing (was Re: consensus call: cookie server conformance)

Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com> Mon, 31 January 2011 13:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] Date parsing (was Re: consensus call: cookie server conformance)
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On 01/31/2011 06:59 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> 5.1.1 (in combination with 2.1) says so.
> 
> That's not my interpretation at all. I can't find any mention of the
> algorithm having to skip "rubbish" in the date field and continue
> parsing on after it.

"The user agent MUST use an algorithm equivalent to the following
algorithm to parse a cookie-date." If you reject some dates that the
5.1.1 algorithm would accept, then your algorithm is not equivalent.

(Likewise if you accept some strings that the 5.1.1 algorithm rejects,
or interpret any accepted string as referring to a different date than
the 5.1.1 algorithm does.)

-- Dan