Re: Retry-After in UNIX Timestamp instead of HTTP-Date

• From: Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:06:11 -0400
• To: Roberto Polli <robipolli@gmail.com>
• Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1BDEF08F-9CF0-498B-9939-A88C4284F360@felipegasper.com>

> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:38 AM, Roberto Polli <robipolli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi @all,
> 
> While reading the Retry-After specs I was guessing...
> 
> if we had to reboot the retry-after header, would we use the HTTP-date
> or the unix-timestamp syntax?
> iiuc the HTTP-date format was inherited from RFC 822 with the goal of
> being human-readable.

I would think RFC 3339 would be the preferred format.

-Felipe Gasper
Mississauga, Ontario

Received on Monday, 5 August 2019 15:10:06 UTC