- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:20:58 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Yutaka OIWA <y.oiwa@aist.go.jp>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <5004FE7E.9010300@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >On 2012-07-17 02:21, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> Perhaps the simplest thing, then, is to change the requirement to: >> >> HTTP header fields with time zones other than "GMT" SHOULD be considered invalid. >> >> Our approach to conformance already allows implementations to try to recover an invalid field, but the responsibility (and risk) is upon them when doing so. >> >> Expires can't be ignored, but it already defines what to do when it's invalid; >> ... > >Sounds right to me. And me too. ... even though it pains my inner time-nut that "UTC" would not be an acceptable alias for UTC in this case :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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