[reSIProcate] Bug in DateCategory::parse()

[Martin Dill]

Yes you are right. I had only looked section 20.17 of the rfc, and not 
at 25.1 where the format is actually specified. My mistake!

Adam Roach wrote:

> That's my reading of it also. Per spec, the header that is causing it 
> to throw an exception is malformed.
>
> That said, Postel's Maxim would certainly support the idea of changing 
> the code so that it parses headers without the "wkday" portion. 
> Without looking at the parsing code specific to the date header field, 
> I would guess that doing so should be a relatively trivial effort.
>
> /a
>
> david Butcher wrote:
>
>> My read of RFC3261 has the week day mandatory.
>>
>> rfc1123 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1123.html>-date  =  wkday "," SP 
>> date1 SP time SP "GMT"
>>
>> Robert?
>>
>> david
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/1/05, *Martin Dill* <mdill at newheights.com 
>> <mailto:mdill at newheights.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>     There appears to be a bug in DateCategory::parse().
>>     As far as I can tell, it assumes that the date it is given will
>>     always be in
>>     the form 'Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:34:15 GMT'. However, I think this is
>>     incorrect. According to RFC822, the day part is optional. When
>>     resip is
>>     given a date in the form '04 Nov 2002 17:34:15 GMT', without the
>>     day part,
>>     it fails with an exception of 'parsebuffer.cxx:78, Parse failed
>>     skipped over
>>     eof in context: Date'.
>>
>>     Can someone verify this?
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     Martin Dill
>>     NewHeights Software
>>
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