From: Gili <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:08:03 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

Following up on
http://jersey.576304.n2.nabble.com/Re-Bug-in-Jersey-s-header-parser-td581274.html
I believe it is a bug for Jersey to only try RFC1123 for parsing dates.
According to the specification you must try *three* different date formats
before giving up:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.3

According to
http://eclipsesrc.appspot.com/jsrcs/org.eclipse.higgins/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.rss/src/org/eclipse/ecf/provider/rss/http/HttpMessage.java.html
the three relevant SimpleDateFormats are:

EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz // rfc 1123
EEEE, dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss zzz // rfc 850
EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy // asctime format

but of course you should verify whether this is true. Should I open a bug
report for this?

Gili

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