MalformedHeaderValue for Date using UTC

[Andrew Chilton]

Hi everyone,

As part of my AwsSum Perl library (which already talks to many web
services including Amazon S3), I'm developing a plugin for the Google
Storage service.

However, I keep getting a MalformedHeaderValue for the Date field when
I use UTC yet GMT and +0000 work fine.

* "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:41:10 UTC" - fails
* "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:41:10 GMT" - ok
* "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:41:10 +0000" - ok

I think this is slightly bizarre though now that I have a workaround
I'm happy. However, I was wondering if someone could explain why UTC
(which makes perfect sense) doesn't work with GoogleStorage?

Cheers,
Andy

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[Jerjou Cheng]

Hm... so, it looks like the HTTP spec kind of agrees with you.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.3.1

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/#z28

That is, while it encourages the use of numeric timezones, it does say that servers must interpret timezone names. Universal Time is specified as UT rather than UTC (in RFC 822), but a quick test indicates that we don't accept UT either. I'll file a bug.

Thanks for letting us know,

-Jerjou

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