- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:17:53 -0400
- To: Brian Pane <brianp@brianp.net>
- Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 24/07/2011, at 2:16 PM, Brian Pane wrote: > I think the problem with ignoring on the client side is that the > clients that would need to ignore large values the most are probably > those least likely to detect the problem. E.g, if you send this: > > Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 2100 00:00:01 GMT > > to a client that uses 32-bit Unix time_t values to hold times, how > will that client interpret it? The implementation might be able to > detect the overflow, but maybe not. Right -- to me, that's a bigger concern, and we might amend the proposed text to note that specifically. I don't know that we can do much else; implementations are just going to have to change how they store and work with time as it approaches... Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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