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Re: Meaning of invalid but well-formed dates

From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:21:11 +0100
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <967A6A49-A8E4-49E9-8258-88517CB39844@googlemail.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>

On 3 May 2009, at 18:30, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> "Wed, 32 March 2009 00:00:00 GMT" matches HTTP-date, and as far as  
>> I can tell is completely valid to produce and send. However, what  
>> it actually means is completely undefined.
>
> Nope. It may be valid according to the ABNF grammar, but that  
> doesn't make March, 32 a valid date.

What makes it invalid in the spec?


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