Re: #375: Most Conservative (caching and date parsing)

OK. Marking for incorporation, with a slight change;

  Caches SHOULD consider dates with time zones other than "GMT" invalid.



On 17/07/2012, at 4:20 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:05:17 UTC