RFC 7231 § 7.1.1 RFC 7232 § 2.2 On Jul 22, 2016 15:01, "Jacob Champion" <champio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/22/2016 12:30 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > >> Yes, I mean anything that doesn't fit one of the *three* allowable >> formats. >> Nothing is allowed except for GMT. >> > > Agreed, only GMT is allowed on the wire. I still believe it's potentially > useful, and not unsafe, to transform a non-GMT timestamp into a valid GMT > timestamp before putting it on the wire. > > (I'm also not opposed to removing such a header entirely; I just don't > think that's as useful.) > > In my opinion, turning a completely invalid string (e.g. >> "Last-Modified: blahblahblah") into a current Last-Modified stamp >> *is* interpretation. We'd be attaching a Last-Modified value to a >> resource that doesn't really deserve one. >> >> That is precisely what the spec calls us to do. >> > > Can you provide a section? I don't know 723x to the extent I knew 2616 yet. > > --Jacob >
