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Re: Invalid cookie expiry time

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:12:32 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, imran shaik wrote:

> Where can I get the valid time formats?

In the cookie RFCs and the original Netscape cookie spec.

> Can I know why the old formats were removed, though few weservers still use
> those formats?

We had to rewrite the date parser since the old one was horrible in several
aspects. I then went through all the formats we needed to support, and added a
bunch more and people have been happy since. This change was done in September
2004.

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Received on 2007-01-12