Re: Retry-After in UNIX Timestamp instead of HTTP-Date

• From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 00:01:40 +1200
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <716beea3-d7f7-4911-18bc-a23fd6b382fc@treenet.co.nz>

On 5/08/19 10:38 pm, Roberto Polli wrote:
> Hi @all,
> 
> While reading the Retry-After specs I was guessing...
> 
> if we had to reboot the retry-after header, would we use the HTTP-date
>  or the unix-timestamp syntax?


Why re-design it at all?

If anything reduce it to just the delay-seconds field value. That is
compatible with any time locale.

Amos

Received on Monday, 5 August 2019 12:02:23 UTC