- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:04:49 +1000
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Yutaka OIWA <y.oiwa@aist.go.jp>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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 :-) > > -- > 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. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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