[HTTPCLIENT-1640] Failed to parse cookie max-age attribute

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.5
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ivan Shcheklein
• Created: 14/Apr/15 22:06
• Updated: 20/Sep/16 19:29
• Resolved: 16/Apr/15 12:31

Description

Url to reproduce (need to follow redirects)
Logs:

2015:04:15 00:47:10,467 [WARN ] org.apache.http.client.protocol.ResponseProcessCookies - Invalid cookie header: "Set-Cookie: sr=true; path=/; expires=Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:36:16 GMT; max-age=30;". Invalid 'expires' attribute: 30

RFC6265CookieSpecBase tries to parse max-age value with LaxExpiresHandler that expects value to be in a cookie-date format, as far I understand. Meanwhile RFC6265 states:

"... Append an attribute to the cookie-attribute-list with an attribute-name of Max-Age and an attribute-value of expiry-time..."

It seems it should just ignore invalid expires value anyway:

"...If the attribute-value failed to parse as a cookie date, ignore the
cookie-av..."