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Article #49Re: Help wanted on Unparsable dates
From: Rich Salz
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:45
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:45
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In <bkhAb0F0@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes: >Unfortunately, the RFCs notwithstanding, both C News and INN retransmit >articles with nonconforming dates. INN does not do this. If the date is invalid, it rejects the article. If the Expires header is invalid, it ignores it. Perhaps this is what Paul means? >Part of the problem is that the RFCs aren't crystal clear on exactly >what's allowed in a date line. If it is not clear, then INN can't be passing nonconforming articles, can it? :-) /r$
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Newsgroups: news.admin.technical Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!zorch!scott From: rsalz@rodan.uu.net (Rich Salz) Subject: Re: Help wanted on Unparsable dates Message-ID: <1eb8u7INNdn@rodan.UU.NET> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA References: <4193@datasci.uucp> <bkhAb0F0@twinsun.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:45:25 GMT Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Lines: 13