scan_httpdate(3)

💖 scan_httpdate — ok so bestie, let's talk HTTP dates 💖

a page from the Library Functions Manual 🎀 (yes that's the manual name, we're fancy here)

✨ NAME ✨

scan_httpdate — parses a HTTP date 🌸 literally just that, she does one thing and she does it well 💅

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

okay so first you gotta pull in the header, no cap:

#include <libowfat/scan.h>

size_t scan_httpdate(const char *src,time_t *dest);

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

scan_httpdate takes a date — the kind of date that's defined in the HTTP standard, iykyk — and parses it straight into a time_t. 🫶

She hands you back the number of bytes she read from src. And if the parse goes wrong? you get 0. Zero bytes, zero vibes, parse error, periodt. 💀

⚠️ heads up bestie: the only supported time zone is GMT. That's it. That's the whole list. Don't come at her with your EST or your +02:00, she's not doing it. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• fmt_httpdate(3) — the other half of the duo, the one who writes the dates while scan_httpdate reads them. main character energy from both of them fr fr ✨

and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 this one lives in the Library Functions Manual (that's the manual name, right at the top, iconic) and she's filed under scan_httpdate(3) — no version number, no date, just her name in the footer being mysterious and lowkey iconic. 💖 🎀 🦋 🌈 ⭐ 💅