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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:27:47 +0100 (CET)

Hello,

In the draft document for the pending cookie RFC update [1], there is language
that says user-agents should limit the maximum expiry time for cookies to no
more than 400 days.

I have a PR [2] that implements this. The only problem is that in order to get
a stable test output, this needs to set the time to a fixed value. In order to
set the time for a test, it can only do this in debug builds.

Thus, this change converts four cookie tests (31, 46, 61 and 1415) to become
debug-build-only tests, which then of course limits cookie testing for those
*not* doing debug builds.

I don't like this, but I also can't think of a way to do this test nicely
without leaning on debug-only features. Unless perhaps we add some math
knowledge to the test runner, but it seems fragile as well.

Anyone with a better idea or thoughts on this topic?

[1] = https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis-13
[2] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12333

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