- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:08:48 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -------- In message <20130118195534.GB6838@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> Why do HTTP request messages have dates in them anyhow? >> >> Dates that are content metadata are useful but putting the time in a >> synchronous protocol has always seemed rather silly to me. The only use I >> can see is to find out if the requester can config their machine to have >> the right TOD on the clock. And that can be a very significant piece of information if you are a bank or stock exchange, but HTTP requests are a totally inane way to find out and we should not propagate that mistake. -- 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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