[Chicken-janitors] #1075: [intarweb] Expires attribute of set-cookie-parser should use rfc1123 dates

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#1075: [intarweb] Expires attribute of set-cookie-parser should use rfc1123 
dates
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 Reporter:  RvdH     |       Owner:  sjamaan
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  someday
Component:  unknown  |     Version:  4.8.x  
 Keywords:           |  
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 A comment in {{{header-parsers.scm}}} says:

 {{{
 ;; We're using http-date-subparser for 'expires' instead of
 rfc850-subparser
 ;; (which would be the correct thing to do) because several well-known web
 ;; server software packages (tested: PHP and Rails) get it wrong.  So we
 ;; will go by the robustness principle and allow any kind of HTTP date.
 }}}

 But according to RFC6265 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1)
 the Expires attribute should use RFC1123 dates, not RFC850 dates.

 So I think (at least) the comment is not correct.

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