net-snmp / Bugs / #2631 traptoemail: locale-dependent (thus often invalid) date format

#2631 traptoemail: locale-dependent (thus often invalid) date format

Milestone: 64-bit

Status: pending

Owner: Niels Baggesen

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2018-06-07

Created: 2015-05-18

Creator: Ferenc Wágner

Private: No

This is Debian bug #785380.

In short: the traptoemail Perl script emits a locale-dependent Date header, which does not conform to RFC 5322 in general. This happens because strftime() is locale-dependent, and could be solved for example by temporarily resetting the locale to C for the strftime() call.

Discussion

Niels Baggesen - 2015-06-04

status: open --> pending

assigned_to: Niels Baggesen
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Niels Baggesen - 2015-06-04

The simplest solution is probably just to drop generating the Date header all together and leave it to the MSA to fill it in.

What do you think?

If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Ferenc Wágner - 2015-06-05

I totally agree.

If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Josef Ridky - 2018-06-07

patch with possible solution. May I ask for review/accept?

traptoemail.patch

If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

traptoemail: locale-dependent (thus often invalid) date format

Group

Searches

Help

#2631 traptoemail: locale-dependent (thus often invalid) date format

Discussion