- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:45:27 +1200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 16/07/2012 6:28 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/375> > >> If an HTTP header field incorrectly carries a date value with a time zone other than GMT, it must be converted into GMT using the most conservative possible conversion. > What does "most conservative" mean? > > "Earliest" makes sense for Expires and Date, but Last-Modified it would seem that "latest" is the most conservative. Precisely. Is any different view of "conservative" possible? > > I really don't want to create a registry -- or even another aspect that each header has to define -- here. > > Maybe just a few examples would help? Or moving the error recovery into the header definitions with appropriate differences? As you note there is no one fix that fits all date usages. AYJ
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