Bug#551461: curl_getdate(3) fails to parse some valid RFC 822 dates

2009-10-18 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: RFC 822's date format allows for the use of single letter military timezones; see http://www.rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/822/chapter5.html For example, "Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:00:00 Z" is a valid date string according to RFC822, and such date stri

Bug#551461: curl_getdate(3) fails to parse some valid RFC 822 dates

2009-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: libcurl3-gnutls Version: 7.19.5-1.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream According to curl_getdate(3), its "parser was written to handle date formats specified in RFC 822 (including the update in RFC 1123) using time zone name or time zone delta and RFC 850 (obsoleted by RFC 1036) and AN