Bug 45101

Summary:	DirContextURLConnection - Format Date Header Values per HTTP spec
Product:	Tomcat 6	Reporter:	Chris Hubick <chris>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	default
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Attachments:	Return Date header values in HTTP format

Description Chris Hubick 2008-05-29 13:42:51 UTC

Created attachment 22035 [details]
Return Date header values in HTTP format

When you retrieve a header value from a DirContextURLConnection, it currently returns a string by simply calling .toString() on the internal object, no matter the type of that Object.  For Date value headers such as 'Last-Modified', this results in a String formatted according to Java standards, rather than the Date format specified by the HTTP standard as clients of the API would expect.

This is a follow-up to bug 44611.

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2008-05-29 14:36:49 UTC

This has been fixed in trunk and proposed for 6.0.x

Many thanks for the patch.

Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2008-06-11 13:12:04 UTC

The patch has been committed to 6.0.x and will be in 6.0.17 onwards.

Again, thanks for the patch.