[tbnl-devel] Running TBNL Standalone

[Edi Weitz]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:26:41 -0500, Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca> wrote:

> While doing this I noticed something a little funny with the dates
> associated with If-modified-since. TBNL (rfc-1123-date) produces
> dates like "Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:49:29 GMT" while Safari produces
> dates like "Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:49:29 GMT" -- same date but you
> can't compare them as strings. If you look at rfc2616 section 3.3.1
> there is an example that has the leading 0 on the day of
> month. Safari produces a header with the leading 0 for
> If-modified-since, so files in the first 9 days of any month will
> never match. FireFox appears to return whatever you send it, so it
> works there. I think this is probably a bug in TBNL.

Thanks, I'll look into this if I find some time.  Or maybe Stefan
will... :)

> I'm going to download the most recent version of TBNL and integrate
> changes into that. There are not many and perhaps I can avoid them
> all. I'll get this cleaned up and then make it available.

Thanks.  If you send patches it'd be very nice if you could also add a
section to the docs which explains how to set up TBNL with Araneida.

Cheers,
Edi.