Cookie Expiration Date Checking

The HTTPS Adapter checks time-limited cookies with expiration dates to ensure that they have not expired. If they have expired, the cookie is removed and is not resent to the originating server. As a result, the session state is removed.

The following standard expiration date formats are recognized by the HTTPS Adapter:

"Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT"            ;RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
"Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT"         ;RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
"Sunday, 06-Nov-1994 08:49:37 GMT"                  ;RFC 1036
"Sun Nov  6 08:49:37 1994"                   ;ANSI C’s asctime()

If the expiration date is in another format, the Adapter does not recognize the expiration date. Instead, it treats the cookie as if it does not have an expiration date.