Re: [Spyce-users] Spyce generates invalid HTTP dates? w/patch

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thanks for the patch; applied in 1349

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:31:08 -0400, "Philip Semanchuk"
<ph...@se...> said:
> Hi all,
> I have noticed that Spyce generates HTTP headers with dates in local 
> time. This is a no-no according to HTTP 1.1 ("All HTTP date/time stamps 
> MUST be represented in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), without exception." - 
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.3) You can 
> demonstrate the problem using this minimal Spyce file and Firefox's 
> HTTP Live Headers extension:
> 
> [[response.expires()]]
> <html>
> <head><title>test</title></head>
> <body>test</body>
> </html>
> 
> 
> The problem is in the function _genTimestampString() in response.py; 
> the fix is a one-line patch:
> 
> 131c131
> <     thetime = time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z', 
> time.localtime(thetime))
> ---
>  >     thetime = time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT', 
> time.gmtime(thetime))
> 
> 
> bye
> Philip
> 
> 
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