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-rw-r--r--CHANGES7
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES3
-rw-r--r--lib/parsedate.c14
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 30d312a15..e7465d857 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
Changelog
+Daniel S (6 Jan 2008)
+- Jeff Johnson filed bug report #1863171
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1863171) where he pointed out that
+ libcurl's date parser didn't accept a +1300 time zone which actually is used
+ fairly often (like New Zealand's Dailight Savings Time), so I modified the
+ parser to now accept up to and including -1400 to +1400.
+
Daniel S (5 Jan 2008)
- Based on further discussion on curl-library, I reverted yesterday's SOCKS5
code to instead introduce support for a new proxy type called
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0eb852074..32621056e 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
o bad connection re-use check with environment variable-activated proxy use
o --libcurl now generates a return statement as well
o socklen_t is no longer used in the public includes
+ o time zone offsets from -1400 to +1400 are now accepted by the date parser
This release includes the following known bugs:
@@ -66,6 +67,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
Emil Romanus, Alessandro Vesely, Ray Pekowski, Spacen Jasset, Andrew Moise,
Gilles Blanc, David Wright, Vikram Saxena, Mateusz Loskot, Gary Maxwell,
Dmitry Kurochkin, Mohun Biswas, Richard Atterer, Maxim Perenesenko,
- Daniel Egger
+ Daniel Egger, Jeff Johnson
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/parsedate.c b/lib/parsedate.c
index 0f0a18629..78cc96fe2 100644
--- a/lib/parsedate.c
+++ b/lib/parsedate.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -289,11 +289,17 @@ static time_t parsedate(const char *date)
if((tzoff == -1) &&
((end - date) == 4) &&
- (val < 1300) &&
+ (val <= 1400) &&
(indate< date) &&
((date[-1] == '+' || date[-1] == '-'))) {
- /* four digits and a value less than 1300 and it is preceeded with
- a plus or minus. This is a time zone indication. */
+ /* four digits and a value less than or equal to 1400 (to take into
+ account all sorts of funny time zone diffs) and it is preceeded
+ with a plus or minus. This is a time zone indication. 1400 is
+ picked since +1300 is frequently used and +1400 is mentioned as
+ an edge number in the document "ISO C 200X Proposal: Timezone
+ Functions" at http://david.tribble.com/text/c0xtimezone.html If
+ anyone has a more authoritative source for the exact maximum time
+ zone offsets, please speak up! */
found = TRUE;
tzoff = (val/100 * 60 + val%100)*60;