Re: Issue 163, was: Meaning of invalid but well-formed dates

Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> 
> On 8 May 2009, at 18:08, Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> >I don't get why s-Mon, s-Jan, l-Mon, etc. are named productions  
> >(instead of
> >unnamed alternatives like in RFC 5023), but that is not new to this  
> >change.
> 
> Case sensitivity. Plain strings in ABNF are case insensitive.

Oh.  I didn't realise date strings in HTTP were case sensitive.  I
just thought they were always generated that way for maximum
compatibility and convention, in the same way that we capitalise HTTP
header names according to convention.

-- Jamie

Received on Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:09:26 UTC