GNU bug report logs - #13544
(web http) fails to parse numeric timezones in Date header

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Package: guile;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 13544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#13544: (web http) fails to parse numeric timezones in Date header
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:28:42 +0100

On Thu 24 Jan 2013 23:13, ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules(web client)(web uri))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (http-get (string->uri "http://www.sqlite.org/"))
> web/http.scm:768:6: In procedure parse-asctime-date:
> web/http.scm:768:6: Bad Date header: Thu, 24  Jan 2013 21:53:01 +0000

As you can see here:

  http://pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com/RFC2616#date-time-formats

HTTP doesn't actually support other time zones.  The date header being
reported by sqlite.org is invalid.

Andy
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