GNU bug report logs - #18176
24.4.50; Errors on dates far in the future in url.el

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Reported by: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 18176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 18176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18176: closed (Re:  24.4.50;
 Errors on dates far in the future in url.el)
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:58:13 +0200

help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) writes:

> This particular use case suggests that url-cookie-expired-p should
> treat out-of-range expiration dates as being infinite.

Yeah, that seems like the right solution.  If we can't parse the
expiration date, we should treat it as if the expiration date isn't
present, and that's the effect we get here, if I understand the code
correctly.  (Which I may not do; I just skimmed it very quickly.)

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