The caching RFC is quite strict about the format of date strings. If we
received a revalidation attribute with an invalid date string, we would
previously fail a runtime assertion. This was because to start a
revalidation request, we would simply check for the presence of any
revalidation header; but then when we issued the request, we would fail
to parse the header, and end up with all attributes being null.
We now don't parse the revalidation attributes at all. Whatever we
receive in the Last-Modified response header is what we will send in the
If-Modified-Since request header, verbatim. For better or worse, this is
how other browsers behave. So if the server sends us an invalid date
string, it can receive its own date format for revalidation.
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