Re: HTTP date format: RFC 850 or RFC 1036

Rob McCool (robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 17 Dec 1993 04:51:43 -0600

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* Re: HTTP date format: RFC 850 or RFC 1036 by "Roy T. Fielding" (fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU)
* written on Dec 15, 8:19pm.
*
* Break? The output format of the date makes no difference to the HTTP
* server -- only to the clients (like the one I'm building). As for a change,
* the NCSA httpd server just changed its date format to supposedly be RFC822
* (see the announcement) and the fact that it is not should be pointed out.
*/

I got the RFC number wrong in the announcement; I used Tony's server as a
model of what the HTTP protocol specifes since it was faster than looking
through the RFC, and it encouraged consistency (if Plexus outputs that way,
now NCSA does the same). Sorry.

--Rob

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