Issue: case-sensitive date format

• From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:46:40 -0800
• To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
• Message-Id: <9801291648.aa13746@paris.ics.uci.edu>

Dean Gaudet has pointed out to me that Section 3.3.1 needs to include
a sentence to the effect of

   HTTP-date is case sensitive and does not allow additional LWS
   beyond that specifically included as SP in the grammar.

since "literal" defaults to case-insensitive.

Just in case anyone wants to argue this point, I should mention that
all servers that I have tested with If-Modified-Since do treat the
value as case-sensitive, including Apache.

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 29 January 1998 17:42:25 UTC