The pending cookie RFC update (currently known as 6265bis draft-19) says
Let cookie-age-limit be the maximum age of the cookie (which name of
Max-Age and an attribute-value of expiry-time. SHOULD be 400 days or
less.
This change makes received cookies over the wire get capped to 400 days.
It does not cap the expiry date of cookies loaded from file.
It does this by rounding the expire time to a even minute. This, to
allow the test suite to do the same and have a chance to get the same
number for stable testing without requiring a debug build.
The test script generates TWO numbers in the output file for each
%days[] used in the input test file, and the function that subsequently
compares and verifies output is fine with *either* of the two numbers.
This is done so that if the test case is generated the second
immediately before curl runs, that updated expiry number is also deemed
okay. It still checks for an exact match of either number.
Closes#15937
The date parser function is very forgiving and skips most "irrelevant"
characters in its hunt for a date to figure out. Therefore it is
important to make sure the date string is properly null terminated so
that it does not accidentally parse a piece of whatever text follows
after the date.
Add test483: test (overly) long expire dates in cookies
Closes#15709
