[tor-commits] [tlsdate/master] Add README note about HTTP Date parsing

ioerror at torproject.org ioerror at torproject.org
Thu Oct 31 10:25:58 UTC 2013


commit 8ae0ac5a7ab0236178c9807e98bb7dca36eb43a2
Author: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>
Date:   Wed Oct 30 18:12:16 2013 +0100

    Add README note about HTTP Date parsing
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 README |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1c9e793..79e1d01 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -51,3 +51,11 @@ time warp to restore sanity and do so with a leap of faith:
   % sudo tlsdate -V -l -t
   Fri Apr 19 18:08:03 PDT 2013
 
+
+Some SSL/TLS services do not provide accurate time in their handshake process;
+tlsdate may also be used to fetch time by processing the HTTP Date headers of
+HTTP services:
+
+  % sudo tlsdate -V -l -t -w
+  Wed Oct 30 18:08:46 CET 2013
+





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