(Memo to self -- don't let your cat hit the "Send" button before you are done ... :-)
On 1/27/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I have noticed the following errors in my Tomcat logs: > > > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException : fr, 27 jan 2006 08:45:27 GMT > > at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.getDateHeader( > > CoyoteRequest.java:1887) > > at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequestFacade.getDateHeader( > > CoyoteRequestFacade.java :428) > > at > > org.apache.shale.remoting.impl.AbstractResourceProcessor.ifModifiedSince > > (AbstractResourceProcessor.java:343) > > > > Going through the Javadocs, it may lok like it is a Tomcat error, but I > > wanted to check with you guys first and here what you think. > > > > In the javadocs for CoyoteRequest.getDateHeader it does say: Throws: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the specified header > > value cannot be converted to a date > > > > > > Now the question is: How does the "If-Modified-Since" parameter in the > > request get set? > > In this case Tomcat does noe understand: "fr, 27 jan 2006 08:45:27 GMT" > > > The "If-Modified-Since" header is set for you by the browser, if you had > transmitted a "Date" header on the previous version of the same URL, and if > you have configured your browser for caching. The required format is > defined in the HTTP spec[1], section 3.3, and your string doesn't match -- > so Tomcat would be correct in reporting an error here. The day abbreviation > would > need to be three letters, so this should look something like: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:45:27 GMT Hermod > > > Craig > > [1] http://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt > > Craig
