How to parse HTTP time header?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Nov 7, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Kevin Ar18 wrote:

>
> Basically, I'm wondering if it is part of the standard library  
> somewhere before I code my own.
>
> Page 20 of RFC2616 (HTTP) describes the format(s) for the time  
> header.  It wouldn't be too difficult for me to code up a solution  
> for the 3 standard formats, but what get's me is the little note  
> about how some servers may still send badly format time headers. :(
> So, I'm curious if this has already been done in the standard Python  
> library?

The parsedate() function in the rfc822 module does this and claims to  
be tolerant of slightly malformed dates, but that module is deprecated  
as of Python 2.5 in favor of the email module which hopefully has an  
equivalent function.


HTH
Philip