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

Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com> Mon, 31 January 2011 14:57 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 09:09 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Dan Winship wrote:
> 
>> At the moment, I have no plans to "fix" my date parser to conform
>> (though I'm not ruling it out either).
> 
> Does this mean your parser is better (than the spec) in some aspects
> that you think are necesary?

No, it's definitely "worse". (It makes no attempt to parse dates whose
fields aren't in one of the standard orders, for instance.) I just don't
think that the "improvement" involved in changing exactly which subset
of the long tail of insanely-wrong Expires attributes I accept is worth
the time it would take to write the code, particularly given that (a)
other implementations are not consistent anyway, and (b) the price of
failure is just "the cookie is expired at the end of the session", not
"the cookie is rejected entirely".

-- Dan

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