Re: #440: max of max-age

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Tue, 07 May 2013 05:28 UTC

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* Mark Nottingham wrote:
><http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/440>
>
>Bjoern,
>
>Are you suggesting that we should change the max to 2**31-1?
>
>If so, happy to discuss it (think it would be easy). I don't want to 
>include text to rationalise it, though, as we don't do so elsewhere, and 
>it really isn't necessary.

I would not have commented if it was 2^31 - 1, but I am not suggesting
anything; for all I know the text could be using 2^31 because everyone
copied some bizarre bug back in the 1990s and now we are stuck with it.
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