[htdig-dev] Re: Wrong date/time format in HTTP header

[Gabriele B. <g.b...@co...>]

This message is in repply of bug issued by Matthias Emmert 
<Mat...@st...>.

Guys, I guess the problem is due to the timezone passed to the strftime 
function, when the local_time flag is set to false.

I think we should find a way to ignore the ZONE flag in this case. Can you 
find a more elegant solution?

Ciao
-Gabriele

Matthias wrote:

I have seen situations where the "If-Modified-Since:"
header entry of an htdig request contains time
zone "MET". The web server (BEA WL6.1) rejects the
request therefore.

To find the error I had a look at the RFC 2616 (HTTP
1.1), which says: "All HTTP date/time stamps MUST be
represented in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), without
exception.". Hmm, that seems to explain the problem.


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