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Hello monks!
This question doesn't really have a lot to do with Perl, but I am using Perl so I hope it's permissible to ask this here.
I am writing a Perl CGI program, which uses cookies, and I was just wondering what the correct way to format the expiration date is. When I use google and some books that I have, all of the answers are different. I gather that most browsers will accept several formats without complaint, but what is the official one? |
Re: Correct expiration date format for cookies
by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2006 at 07:44 UTC
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The documentation for CGI.pm's "header" method contains an example of the format required - Thursday, 25-Apr-1999 00:40:33 GMT. But it's usually easier to use one of the abbreviated formats like '+1d' or '+1y'.
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Re: Correct expiration date format for cookies
by Tomte (Priest) on Aug 14, 2006 at 08:30 UTC
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According to the RFC 2965 Max-Age for a cookie is expressed as positive integer with the meaning "seconds from now on" - in difference to the cache-controling expiration header, which has to follow the date-formats specified in RFC 2616, of which the format mentioned in the CGI.pm-documentation is one.
regards,
tomte
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