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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Sat, 29 January 2011 21:51 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: [http-state] Date parsing (was Re: consensus call: cookie server conformance)
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>> replacing, say, the date parsing algorithm that's been made up on the
>> spot, and not doing what is proposed here, namely describing the proto- col
>> in a manner that is inconsistent with the vast majority of servers.
>
> I read the date parser algorithm as describing a parser with a set of
> capabilities that a date parser for cookies should have. It doesn't say that
> the parser has to work exactly like that.
>
> I consider "my" date parser compliant, but it parses the string in a
> different way than described in the spec.

When you say "in a different way", do you mean via a different
algorithm or that your implementation outputs different dates for some
input strings?

Adam